A small robot holding a smartphone, called Shimi, won the hearts and minds of the technology press in June, in part on the strength of the below video. Watch it. You will see a robot that dances, ...

Robots aren't taking over the planet yet, but they are doing jobs in more and more places: hospitals and offices, movie sets and battlefields. They're making a mark in the world of music, as well.

Robots are generally presumed to be coming for our manual jobs, but lately it seems that even more creative endeavors aren’t safe from automation. Shimon the robot is a marimba-mashing musical maestro ...

The musical *Maybe Happy Ending* tells the story of helper robots, designed to assist humans, who learn love, experience loss, and ultimately face farewell. Of course, emotions are not programmed into ...

The tasks taken on by the Armatron aren’t so different from the ones AI is tackling today. As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent a lot of time in our local Radio Shack as a kid. While my dad ...

The smartphone docking station was upgraded to robot status today with the unveiling of a brainy speaker system at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The robot, called Shimi, gains ...

Musical Robot, a two-person band, and pop-up artist Carter put a cybernetic twist on a sing-along standby, and the results are a blast (a laser beam blast, to be precise). A smiling cast of robots ...

What if your digital assistant could battle rap? That may sound far-fetched, but Gil Weinberg, a music technologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has adapted a musical robot called Shimon to ...

We were doing our daily harvest of YouTube for fresh hacks when we stumbled on a video that eventually led us to this conversion of a 1980s Armatron robot to steam power. The video in question was of ...