MCK Special School for the Deaf’s marimba band teacher Mthokozisi Sibisi with pupils recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda “I wish every child could learn how to play marimba music because it is good for ...

Georgia Tech's Mason Bretan has built a robot that can not only play music, but is now learning how to compose its own tunes. Shimon is a four-armed, marimba-playing droid that draws upon its vast ...

When the inevitable robot invasion happens, we now know what the accompanying soundtrack will be — and we have to admit that it’s way less epic than the Terminator 2: Judgment Day theme. Unless you’re ...

Shimon, a four-armed robot marimba player, is now capable of writing its own songs. At last year’s Moogfest, a four-day music and technology conference in North Carolina, Shimon showed off its ability ...

Watch out all you well-paid, fat-and-sassy jazz marimba players: Shimon, the marimba playing robot, is after your jobs. Shimon is the brainchild of the Gil Weinberg at the Georgia Tech Center for ...

Shimon is a marbima-playing robot with some real soul. This crazy little robot, created by Gil Weinberg at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, can listen to the other players around it and ...

In the modern world it’s easy to lose touch with your roots. That’s as true for Zulus as anyone else. Take the students at Goede Hoop, a primary school 30 minutes outside of Johannesburg. Some of the ...

SAVANNAH, GA (wtoc) - Machines are use to do just about everything these days. From opening cans to playing the marimba. Shimon is not your average marimba playing robot. This media maestro takes both ...