In the Media
- Good News Network. Watch the World’s First AI Robot Capable of Writing Its Own Music Collaborating Alongside Humans. May 1, 2020.
- IEEE Spectrum. It’s Robot Versus Human as Shimon Performs Real-Time Rap Battles. April 23, 2020.
- Tech Talks. The Artist in the Machine: The bigger picture of AI and creativity. April 22, 2020.
- IEEE Spectrum. Musical Robot Learns to Sing, Has Album Dropping on Spotify. April 19, 2020.
- Daily Mail. Bot Dylan’: Singer-songwriter robot called Shimon can write its own lyrics. April 9, 2020.
- So Strangely podcast. Scale Degree Qualia in Context. February 29, 2020.
- Gizmodo. Shimon the Singing Robot Is Both Creepy and Captivating. February 28, 2020.
- Futurity. Singer-Songwriter Robot is Heading Out on Tour. February 27, 2020.
- Musically. There really is a robot releasing music on Spotify. March 20, 2020.
- Atlanta Intown. Making Music: Guthman Competition combines music, art and technology. February 3, 2020.
- CNN.com. Ciara comes home to surprise STEM students. January 6, 2020.
- Robo Hub. Listening like a Human, Playing like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg. January 10, 2020.
2019
- Decider. Stream It or Skip It: ‘The Age of A.I.’ On YouTube, A Robert Downey Jr.-Hosted Docuseries on The Uses Of Artificial Intelligence. December 20, 2019.
- Medscape. Music May Calm the Epileptic Brain. December 19, 2019.
- AP News. Ciara surprises Georgia students using STEM to remix songs. December 7, 2019.
- Open Culture. Neurosymphony: A High-Resolution Look into the Brain, Set to the Music of Brain Waves. November 22, 2019.
- Guinness World Records. How this drummer created a record-breaking prosthetic after losing his arm. October 19, 2019.
- Telegram. Mechanics Hall concert begs question, ‘Is there music without a human?’ October 28, 2019.
- Synced. Robot Music Through the Ages. July 24, 2019.
- The Economist. Why ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ a Cold War anthem, endures. May 30, 2019.
- GoUpstate. At the Guthman Competition: The Glide. March 15, 2019.
- IEEE Spectrum. Deep learning: Shimi Will Now Sing to You in an Adorable Robot Voice. March 5, 2019.
2018
- Atlanta Magazine. At the Guthman Competition, innovative instruments just might predict the future of music. February 22, 2018.
- Freethink Media. The Worlds First Bionic Drumm (18 million views!)
- IEEE Spectrum. Drummer With Cyborbg Arm Wants to Take it On Tour Project. April 17, 2018.
- Fortune Magazine. Skywalker Piano Hand mentioning. January 14, 2018.
- Atlanta Jewish Times. Robotic Drumming Arm. April 30, 2018.
- Boing Boing. Robotic Drummer Prosthetic
- Scroll. Skywalker Arm. April 20, 2018.
- WABE interview. Robot Rise Up at the Atlanta Science Festival. March 1, 2018.
- Tech Crunch. Shimon Robot Utrecth Performance. October 9, 2018.
- Technophopica. Podcast on Android Future. March 12, 2018.
- Atlanta Jewish Times. Robotic Musician Does More Than Keep Beat.
- Popular Science. Mouser Electronics Feature. April 25, 2019.
- Savanah Morning News. Students learn coding through music at Georgia Tech Savannah camp. July 5, 2018.
- Inside Indiana Business. Music Coding Program to Launch in Indy. February 18, 2018.
- Fortune. The Force is Real: How 'Star Wars' Neuroscience is Revolutionizing Healthcare and More. January 4, 2018.
2017
- IEEE Spectrum. Four-Armed Marimba Robot Uses Deep Learning to Compose its Own Music. June 14, 2017.
- Fox News. The Marimba Robot that Composes and Plays its Own Music. June 15, 2017.
- Popular Mechanics. The Marimba Robot that Composes and Plays Its Own Music. June 15, 2017.
- Wired. Robot that uses deep learning to write and play its own music. June 14, 2017.
- The Verge. The AI-powered Robot can Play the Marimba. June 15, 2017.
- Gizmodo. The Artificially Intelligent Robot Composes and Performs Its Own Music. June 14, 2017.
- IEEE Spectrum. 'Skywalker' Prosthetic Hand Uses Ultrasound for Finger-Level control. December 12, 2017.
- World Economic Forum. The Amputee Can Play the Piano Again. December 14, 2017.
- CNN. 'Star Wars' Inspires Bionic Hand. December 13, 2017.
- MedGadget Magazine. Medgadget's Best Medical Technologies of 2017. December 26, 2017.
- Engadget. Researchers Create Prothetic Hand. December 11, 2017.
- Mashable. Skywalker Arm. December 12, 2017.
- AJC. EarSketch: Tech Professor Blends Music, Computer and Coding. January 31, 2017.
- The Guardian. 'The status quo will be obliterated!' - Guthman New Instrument Competition. November 24, 2017.
- Atlanta Magazine. Georgia Tech hosts the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition. March 9, 2017.
- How Stuff Works. Winners of The Competition to Invent New Musical Instruments. March 15, 2017.
2016
- Whitehouse. White House Highlights Georgia Tech-Created Computer Science Teaching Tool. December 5, 2016
- Vice. Inside the Wired World of Georgia Tech's Robotic Musicians. November, 22 2016.
- Public. Gil Weinberg And The Future Of Robotic Music. July, 19 2016
- Canal+. Music of the Future. July 18, 2016
- NPR Music. Your New Robot Overlord Turns Out To Be A Pretty Good Marimba Player. May 23, 2016
- Quartz. A four-armed robot can now improvise music as well as human bandmates. May 22, 2016
- AJC. Georgia Tech's Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition. February, 29 2016.
- NPR. Two Arms are Good… Three arms are Better?. March 2, 2016
- Tech Crunch. Robotic Parasite Helps Drummers Keep The Beat. February 22, 2016
- Popular Science. ROBOTIC THIRD ARM TURNS DRUMMERS INTO BEAT MACHINES. February 19, 2016
- CNET. Robotic limb Turns Drummer Into Three-Armed Musical Cyborg. February 19, 2016
- IEEE Spectrum. Cybernetic Third Arm Makes Drummers Even More Annoying. February 18, 2016
- Washington Post. Scientists Created a Three-Armed Cyborg to Play the Drums Like No Human Can. February 18, 2016
- Georgia Tech News. 2016: A Year in Review. 2016
2015
- PBA 30. Shimon the Robot (and Friends). December 28, 2015.
- The Atlantic. The Cyborg Drummer. September 24, 2015
- The Creator Project. In the "network back alley" spy virtual and real mixed life. September 10, 2015
- ABC Australia. Drummer with robotic arm returns to music as 'fastest drummer in the world' after amputation. August 20, 2015
- Brisbane Times. Cyborg drummer Jason Barnes coming to Robotronica in Brisbane with Shimon Robot. August 14, 2015
- Arts Bird. Shimon Robot & Friends: Musical Robots & Cyborgs From Room 100. August 7, 2015
- The Republicain Lorrain. “Music Tech Metz: Unite Science and Art,”. June 5, 2015
2014
- The New York Times. An Environmental Film Festival and High-Tech Music. Feb 24, 2014.
- ArtsATL. “Year in Review: The most notable performances and events in Atlanta music”. January 3, 2014
- Engadget. This robotic prosthesis gives drummers a third arm. March 6, 2014.
- AJC. A different drummer. May 10, 2014.
- Slate Magazine. This drummer has a third arm. March 10, 2014.
- Ars Technica. New robotic arm opens up musical worlds for “cyborg” drummer. March 11, 2014.
- Wired Magazine. Robotic hand keeps amputee drumming. March 12, 2014.
- The Huffington Post. Cyborg Drummer Creates Dazzling Music With Robotic Arm. March 6, 2014
- Discovery News. Bionic Arm Is A Hit With Cyborg Drummer. March 6, 2014.
- IEEE Spectrum. Cyborg Drumming Arm Makes Amputee Into Superhuman Musician. March 6, 2014.
- Gizmodo. This Bionic Drummer Arm Is Like Def Leppard 2.0. March 6, 2014.
- Tech Crunch. Play That Funky Music, Cyborg. March 5, 2014.
- NBC News. Robotic Drumming Prosthesis Gives Musician an Extra Hand. March 5, 2014.
2013
- Marketplace Tech. Robots that play like Monk, and growth in the online job market. January 4, 2013.
- Creative Loafing. “Looking back on the most memorable musical events of 2013,”. December 24, 2013
- WSBTV. “P2P GA Tech Computer Engineering / Lanier High,”. March 11, 2013
- CNN Radio. “Meet Jay-Z’s Guru,”. April 14, 2013
- The Middletown Press. “Middletown Remix to culminate in sound festival,”. March 29, 2013
- CS Bits & Bytes, a publication of the National Science Foundation. "Algorithmic Music Composition," January 28, 2013
- WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio). “Remixing Middletown,” May 10, 2013
- Forbes. "Nanotech and Laptop Orchestras of the Future,". February 19, 2013
- The Hartford Courant. "Middletown Remix Festival Saturday Celebrates City's Eclectic Arts Scene,". May 9, 2013
- NY Magazine. The Rise of Robot Jobs. June 9, 2013
- AJC. Gwinnett pilot hopes to draw students to computer programming through music. May 1, 2013
- NY Times. Finding Our Way and Inventing Musical Instruments . April 8, 2013
- Popular Science. Meet The Next Generation Of Smartphone-Based Robot Companions. February 11, 2013.
- NY Times. Our Talking, Walking Objects. January 26, 2013.
2012
- TechCrunch. Georgia Tech’s Musical Robots. July 31, 2012
- Wired. Robots Are Already Replacing Us. December 24, 2012.
- MSNBC. Robot picks, plays and grooves to your music. June 28, 2012
- Mashable. Robot Smartphone Docking Station Will Bring the Boogie. June 28, 2012
- Engadget. Georgia Tech's Shimi robot wants to rock with you all night, rock the night away. June 27, 2012.
- Gizmodo. The Weirdest iPhone Dock Is This Adorable Dancing Alien Robot. June 26, 2012
- NextWeb. Meet Shimi, the interactive robotic speaker / smartphone dock that will knock your socks off. June 26, 2012.
- USA Today. Hip Hop Tracks Composed With Computer Code. July 13, 2012.
- BBC. Is the US losing its innovative edge? October 2012
2011
- Robot Magazine “Georgia Tech’s Shimon Can Jam”. January 2011
- Arts Critic ATL, Concert Review, March 17, 2011
- The Marker "Travis the Robotic Musical companion Makes it world Debut", November 2, 2011
- Arts Critic ATL. The year in review: Four blockbuster musical events, and one huge check. December 29, 2011.
- The Associated Press. Shimon on Marimba: Is This the New Jazz? January 25, 2011.
- Reuters. The Rise of Robo Sapiens. January 26, 2011.
- PBS. Does music feed the mind?. May 13, 2011
- Technology In The Arts. “Mobile Audience Participation with Jonah Bokaer and the Ferst Center”. March 27, 2011
- The Rest Is Noise. “Miscellany: Philly crisis, etc.”. April 19, 2011
- Create Digital Music. “Remixing Times Square, with Mobile Field Recordings”. April 26, 2011
- WNYC (New York, New York public radio). “Artists Mix Times Square Street Sounds into Music”. May 12, 2011
- DRadio Wissen German Radio. “Times Square Medley – neu gemischt”. May 18, 2011
- “Am New Yorker Times Square entstanden im Projekt ‘Urban Remix’ hunderte Geräusch installationen als lebendes Audio. May 27, 2011
- Austrian Radio. Archiv dieses Ortes” on Ö1 / ORF. 2011
2010
- CNN. Robot Musician improvises, Jams with humans. April 29, 2010
- NPR. Complete Broadcast Performance of Piano Etudes. January 15, 2010
- ABC Radio National in Australia. Broadcast of a half-hour segment on my Piano Etudes. August 7, 2010
- Creative Loafing. Named Jason Freeman one of “8 Artists to Watch”. September 2, 2010
- The Atlantan Magazine. Named Jason Freeman one of “15 Atlanta Art Mavericks for 2011”. December 2010
2009
- Chronicle of Higher Education “Composers and Computers Work in Harmony at Georgia Tech's Music Center” January 30, 2009
- Engadget, Robotic marimba player grooves autonomously with jazz pianist. April 26, 2009
- Gizmodo. Shimon Robot Takes Over Jazz As Doomsday Gets a Bit More Musical. April 26, 2009
- CNN, Produce Music with Smart Phones. January 26, 2009.
- Science Channel, The Future of … Music, October 22, 2009
- Atlanta Journal Constitution. Tech Composes the Music of Fish. February 29, 2009.
- NPR Music A Robot That Improvises Like Thelonious Monk, December 22, 2009
- USA Today, A vibrating hand for the pianist, please. February 11, 2009.
- NPR All Tech Considered Robot Music: Play It Again, Shimon, December 22, 2009
- Wired. Musical Instruments of the Future. February 25, 2009.
- NPR All Things Considered, A Robot Names Shimon Wants To Jam With You, December 22, 2009
- Reuters. Musician Inventors Play to Win at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. February 25, 2009.
- Wired. New Musical Instruments Battle for $10k in Prizes. March 20, 2009.
- Wired. Anyone, Really, Can Make and Share Music with ZOOZ Mobile’s iPhone App. April 22, 2009.
- CNN. The new musical instrument: Your phone. October 29, 2009.
- WABE. ZOOZbeat at the Spruill Gallery. November 1, 2009.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Sonic Generator’s November 2009 concert as one of the “Top 10 Classical Music Performances in 2009”. December 23, 2009
- NPR All Tech Considered. Robot Music: Play It Again, Shimon. December 22, 2009.
- Atlanta Magazine. Named Sonic Generator as one of six arts and culture organizations on its 2009 “Best of Atlanta” list. 2009
2008
- Market Watch, Georgia Tech Launches Center for Music Technology. Nov 7, 2008
- Wired. Robots Pass Musical Turing Test. Nov 21, 2008
- Atlanta Business Chronicle. GaTech Center for Music Technology starts. Nov 7, 2008
- E Science News. Creating Music with Your Cellphone. November 7, 2008
- NPR The Take Away. Aquatic Harmonies. December 24, 2008.
2007
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sonic Generator Concert Review. January 31, 2007
- Discovery Channel. “Daily Planet”. 2007
- New Scientist, “Drummer Droid Evolves Its Mojo…". 2007
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Georgia Tech Robot Grabs Attention of Federal Agency”. 2007
- KDKA Radio. “Haile – The First Truly Robotic Musician”. 2006
- Make Magazine. “Duet with a Robotic Drummer”. 2006
- Axis Magazin. “Towards Awaking Deep Feelings for Music”. 2006
- PC Magazine. “Robot Beats”. 2006
- The New Scientist. “Drummers Tune in to Robot Rhythm”. 2006
- Innovations@Georgia Tech. “Researching to the Beat of a Different Drummer”. 2006
- Haaretz. “The Beatbug Generation”. March 2, 2006
- Jerusalem Post. “Robots Find Their Rhythm”. 2006
- CNN. “Musical Robot Composes, Performs and Teaches”. 2006