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"Tovbot, a personal robotics company that was founded by Georgia Tech, MIT, and IDC roboticists, is going to showcase a super cool piece of work at the upcoming Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.\r\n\r\nI'm talking about Shimi, a \u201CRobotic Musical Companion\u201D prototype, powered by an Android smartphone or iPhone, that knows how to dance to the beat, recognize gestures and facial expressions and is even able to read status updates from your Twitter or Facebook friends out loud.\r\n\r\nSays Gil Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of Tovbot: \r\n\r\n\u201CShimi is actually the product of nearly a decade of musical robotics research. We\u2019re very excited about the opportunity to show the Google developer community what we\u2019ve put together using the Android platform.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nSo are we, Gil, so are we.\r\n\r\nThe bad news: expect the Shimi to hit the market no earlier than the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show.\r\n\r\nThe good news: here are two preview videos guaranteed to blow your mind.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE1q_HYiLcU\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6bs1rrOwxo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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