Workshop Human-Robot Artistic Collaboration in MUSIC4D
Artificial Intelligence that captures and generates artistic behaviors and emotions in musical environments and beyond
Human-Robot collaboration (HRC) is becoming pervasive, not only in environments where robots have been already present at work since long time like the manufacturing sector, now renamed Smart Factory, but particularly in those domains where humans have been so far the only “actors” like sports, hospitality, healthcare, and, last but not least, music, particularly classical music. It is just in this last domain, the classical music domain, that the last frontier of the AI-driven humanoid robotics could lie. Benefits could be huge: from the co-direction of orchestras for complex innovative musical texts to the collaboration between human musicians and robot musicians to the capture and reproduction of emotional and artistic behaviors, also in the Metaverse.
The MUSIC4D project funded by the Italian government (INTAFAM 00039 MUSIC4D) has the goal to fulfil this ambition by purposely merging AI-driven robotics with classical music to deliver innovative environments where humans and robots co-exist, collaborate, control, and cooperate, via multi-agent complex patterns and embodied intelligence.
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- University of Calabria
- Rende, Calabria
- Italy
- Building: TAU
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Program at a Glance
May 13, 2026
15.30–16.00
Opening: Greetings from the Rector of the University of Calabria and from other officers. Prof. G. Fortino presents the workshop.
16.00–16.05
The 1st musical interlude: 2001 – A Space Odyssey (Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra)
By the orchestra conducted by M° M. Galeati and RoBoCon
With AI video by Dr. M. Martino (Director of the AI Visual Lab of IBM-MIT)
16.05–16.30
An Introduction to HRC-MUSIC4D Project
Prof. G. Fortino and Dr. R. Chawla, UNICAL
16.30–16.35
The 2nd musical interlude: The Terminator (Brad Fiedel)
By the orchestra conducted by M° M. Galeati and RoBoCon
16.35–17.15
Towards Self-Awareness and Emotional Humanoid Robots in MUSIC4D
Dr. V. Seidita, University of Palermo
a) Can a robot feel emotions? – Prof. A. Chella (UNIPA)
b) Group Emotion Recognition & Visualization – Prof. G. Fortino (UNICAL)
c) From Emotion to Creation: Adaptive Behaviour in MUSIC4D – Dr. V. Seidita (UNIPA)
17.15–17.25
“Robotic Virtual Touch”
Dr. R. Chawla and Dr. V. Seidita (UNICAL and UNIPA)
17.25–17.30
The 3rd musical interlude: WestWorld (Ramin Djawadi)
By the orchestra conducted by M° M. Galeati and RoBoCon
17.30–17.45
The 4th musical interlude (Ennio Morricone):
- A Man in Space – The Humanoid
- Mission – Gabriel’s Oboe
- Once Upon a Time in America
By the orchestra conducted by M° M. Galeati and RoBoCon
17.45–18.00
Closing – The UNICAL team
18.00–19.00
Aperitivo Buffet – Networking (at the Terrace of TAU)
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