Some highlights of projects I've worked on leading up to and in my PhD. All of which have some form/combination of music and robots.
Recently built interactive exhibit using strings, drums, and robotic arms to create a robotic musician that uses vision and audio input to modify lights, robot movemnents, and string playing.
A LEGO compatible interactive system for kids to learn sensor mapings and music
A forest of twelve robot arms (uFactory xArm) use dancer-inspired movement and music input to dance with humans.
An acoustic guitar-playing robot that mimics huuman motion to play expressive
3D Spatial audio headphones that branched from NSF funded project
Marimba playing robot, Shimon, uses gestures and visual queues to improve collaboration with musicians.
Xylophone playing robot, Shaia, is a low-cost open source robot to teach music
Multimodel Robot Used to help people who are deaf and hard of hearing experience music
An NSF funded project where we used emotional musical prosody and emotional gestures to improve trust between humans and robots.
NSF funded project using music to improve safety and fluency in human robot interaction
Shimon Generating different vocal and marimba parts to cover songs
A set of robot workshops I hosted with my advisor to create performances with dancers and robots.
