Shimon Robot

The First Musician Robot in the World that Sings and Composes Songs

"My goal is to see my robots communicating and interacting with [humans] and inspiring them in surprising ways."
- Gil Weinberg.

Shimon is a robotic marimba player and a singer song writer, who can listen to, understand, collaborate with, and inspire his human counterparts. Shimon uses artificial intelligence and creativity algorithms to push musical experiences and outcomes to uncharted domains.

As the most traveled robotic musician Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, Shimon aims to facilitate meaningful musical interactions between humans and machines, which would leading to novel and creative musical experiences and outcomes.

Shimon was created by musician and scientist Gil Weinberg and his laboratory at the Georgia Tech Center For Music. It is the result of years of research in machine learning, psychology and music theory.

Gil Weinberg and Shimon have appeared at The Kennedy Center, The World Economic Forum, Ars Electronica, among others.

In 2020, Shimon released its first album called Shimon Sings and it can be heard on the Spotify platform, along with other singles.