Swedish composer Fredrik Gran programs robotic arms to play bowed instruments like the cello and double bass. He also plays duets with the robots, blurring the lines between the musician and the music ...

“If music be the food of love, play on”, so the famous aphorism goes. But what if the music didn’t come from a human? What if Daft Punk’s Robot Rock came from an actual robot? Would that change ...

Fans are trying to figure out why a mysterious robot has appeared in the thumbnails for several of Shakira's music videos on YouTube. The futuristic, humanoid bot can be seen in the background of ...

In this video for “Kill Your Co-Workers” by electronic musician (and Adult Swim bumper composer) Flying Lotus, a bizarre polygonal parade is the scene of a robot-versus-robot massacre. Furthermore, ...

(LEMUR) presents its first concert series consisting entirely of works commissioned for LEMUR's musical robots. Titled "Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans," the program will be ...

Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over ...

When Karel Čapek wrote his play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1920, the battle against machines replacing human labor had been fought for more than a century, with humans invariably losing. Now, more ...

We often hear about alumni from Berklee College of Music in Boston winning Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys. But did you know there was a select group of students who helped make sounds for robots ...

Composer Kris Bowers tells IndieWire about the work the music does to elevate key scenes and the scenes where it wasn't needed at all. The playful, adventurous score by Kris Bowers finds the exact ...

When Oscar-winning animation director Mark Andrews (“Brave”) called his old Pixar pal Alex Mandel about his latest gig, “Super Giant Robot Brothers,” Mandel was 6,700 miles away in New Zealand ...