January 10th, 2013

Up Close With Shimi, The Only Robotic, Dancing iPhone Dock You’ll Ever Need

Tovbot Onstage at CES

We’ve covered Tovbot’s Shimi from inception to launch at TechCrunch Disrupt and this week we got a closer look at the little dancing robot that could at our CES stage. → Read More

September 10th, 2012

Tovbot Is A Robotic iPod Dock That Can Shake Its Groove Thing

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Robots can do almost anything – build cars, explore Mars, and run through the woods like a monster – but now they can sing and dance and even play songs after hearing their rhythm lines clapped out by their owners. Launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Tovbot is one of the coolest robots you’ll see today. → Read More

July 31st, 2012

TechCrunch Makers: Georgia Tech’s Musical Robots

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Gil Weinberg is a Ph.D with a background in jazz. More importantly, however, he’s an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in how it intersects with concepts of creativity and musicianship. His projects, Shimi and Shimon, two music-playing robots that regularly amaze audiences around the world, explore what it means to “play” music. He asks whether music is an innate human… → Read More