Shimi Musical Robot Unveiled at Google I/O: This musical companion robot wants to be your personal DJ

Shimi Musical Robot Unveiled at Google I/O

Shimi Musical Robot Unveiled at Google I/O: This musical companion robot wants to be your personal DJ

We know Google loves robots. And we're not talking about Android . We mean real robots such as self-driving cars , cloud-based robots , and others that presumably remain under wraps . So it's not a surprise that Google invited a bunch of robots to its developers conference this week. One of them is Shimi, a smartphone-enabled musical robot developed at Georgia Tech and unveiled today at Google I/O. Shimi is basically an interactive robotic speaker. You dock your smartphone on the bot, and it will not only play your songs but also recommend tracks and dance to the beat. It reminds me a bit of other speaker-robot hybrids like the OLogic AMP musical robot or the TOSY "Bieber Bot" shown at CES . At Google I/O, three Shimi bots performed together: Using the phone's camera and image recognition software, Shimi can track a user around a room and position its speakers for optimal ...

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