How much: $25/general admission; included for Ideas passholders Tickets: Wheeler Opera House box office; http://www.aspenshowtix.com Shimon plays a mean marimba. This ...

They come in peace — and in pieces. And they play pieces, too. The musical robots of Expressive Machines Musical Instruments will take the stage tonight at McGuffey Art Center with human colleagues to ...

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello ...

Humanoid robots are typically built to mimic the human form for practical tasks like assisting older adults and handling hazardous materials. Over the past decade, they’ve lifted boxes, assembled ...

During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named “Adam” graced the stage in what was half performance art and half marketing stunt — and did so while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie ...

Meet the “Fembot,” an entirely student-built robot constructed by the scholars at KTH, a technology university in Sweden. From listening to Robyn’s song cache, it appears that the singer has an ...

Moritz Simon Geist sees his “Sonic Robots” not simply as an end in themselves, but a way to make new music and change how listeners engage with it. To upgrade techno, this engineer plays his own ...

WILD RIDE Kris Bowers’ experiences as a husband and father informed The Wild Robot’s score. “Thinking about my wife and the sacrifices she’s made — it’s like Credit: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via ...

Anyone committed to building a particular skill is capable of experiencing the "ceiling effect," in which performance plateaus after years of training. For hobbyists, this is frustrating; for ...

Along with headphone epics like “Nucleus” and “Total Eclipse,” I Robot also includes the hit single “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” as well as “Breakdown,” which also found considerable rock radio ...