The real life Mr. Roboto

A robot developed by researchers at Georgia Tech has a knack for music that would have made Beethoven jealous. Shimon is robot that composes and plays his own beats. He uses a process called deep neural learning along with artificial intelligence to decode different genres of music eventually creating his own chimes on the marimba. Dr. Gil Weinberg, the director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, created Shimon nearly 10 years ago, but now the robot musician has learned how to do things on his own. Weinberg's goal is to use the technology to collaborate with humans rather than replace them.