Robots are generally presumed to be coming for our manual jobs, but lately it seems that even more creative endeavors aren’t safe from automation. Shimon the robot is a marimba-mashing musical maestro ...

In what looks and sounds like something straight out of a Star Wars movie, a robot named Shimon from Georgia Tech can now sing and compose songs with human collaborators, among many other cool ...

The former president of Israel, Shimon Peres, died on Wednesday in a Tel Aviv area hospital at 93. Peres was one of the last surviving founders of Israel. He died about two weeks after suffering a ...

Shimon—a four-armed marimba playing robot—has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the ...

Researchers from Georgia Tech have created a robot called Shimon that can write songs, play music, and sing. The marimba-playing robot is going on tour to support a new album that he has composed and ...

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Who is Shimon Hayut and what did he do? Shimon Hayut is a 31-year-old man who pretended to be a billionaire named Simon Leviev. He called himself ‘the prince of diamonds’ and claimed to be the son of ...