A Georgia Tech student has surrounded himself with a team of dancing robots and an improvising, marimba-playing bot to collaborate on an original musical composition.
Mason Bretan, a Ph.D. candidate in music technology, plays the drums, guitar, and keyboard. A robot named Shimon listens, then generates music on a marimba using its computational knowledge of jazz theory and improvisation. Meanwhile, a trio of Shimi robots autonomously generates dance choreographies based on a joint analysis of the music and a self-awareness of their physical constraints and abilities.
