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"This smartphone docking station just wants to dance all night long. \nShimi is the name of the one-foot tall dancing robot and smartphone dock designed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology. Just clap your hands to a beat you want to hear, and Shimi will find it, play that track and boogie to the beat. \nThis smart robot also uses facial recognition technology via the phone's camera to track the listeners' faces \u2014 so that it can position its speakers in their direction. \n\"Shimi is designed to change the way that people enjoy and think about their music,\u201D Professor Gil Weinberg, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology and the robot\u2019s creator, was quoted as saying on the school's website. \nAttendees at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco got a sneak peek at the dancing robot Wednesday night. \nCalling all app developers: Professor Weinberg hopes Shimi will inspire people to create apps to expand the bot's capabilities. \nThrough the newly formed startup, Tovbot, Georgia Tech plans to commercialize Shimi. This dancing robot could be available for the holiday season in 2013. \nHow much would you pay to own a Shimi? Tell us in the comments. \nPhoto courtesy of iStockphoto, cybernaut\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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