Can robots find the rhythm and be 'moved by music'? - Innovation Origins

Have you ever tried standing completely still when your favourite song comes on? It's difficult not to move your body when a catchy tune is played. Standing still to a good beat is actually so difficult that it has triggered an avalanche of research projects. One of them looks at whether music can also be used to get robots to move to a beat. "A big focus of our research is the involuntary and irresistible urge to move to a good beat," says postdoctoral fellow Alexander Szorkovszky in a press release.