Dr. Yuji Sone is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia. His research has focused on the cross-disciplinary conditions of technologised performance.
Dr. Richard Savery is a developer of AI and robotics, using music and creativity as a medium to programme better interactions, understandings, and models. He is currently a research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia, developing new robotic musicians. His current research focuses on the creation of a new drumming and rapping robot, as well as robots painting to music and musical captcha.

PART ONE: Robot/AI Cultures and Performing Arts Practices
1. Introduction: New conversations across the Performing Arts
Yuji Sone
2. I am Going to Turn into Peter: Glitching Human-Robot interactions
Yaron Shyldkrot
3. Medusai: A Multimodal Large Scale Robotic Musician
Amit Rogel, Jiahe Qian, Ripken Walker, Nicollete Cash, Emily Liu. Hope Phan, Hannah Schlisky, Tristan Al-Haddad and Gil Weinberg
4. Roboethics and Care in 2032 SMART-FAMILY
Marina Hanganu
5. Choreographing the Future: AI, Dance, and Cultural Transformation
Tanvi Raghuram, Kohinoor M. Darda and Emily S. Cross
6. Keiichiro Shibuya's Android Opera: The Theatrics of Exoticism
Yuji Sone
PART TWO: Performing Arts Cultures and Robots/AI Developments
7. Chikamatsu, Mori, and the Uncanny Valley
Karl F. MacDorman
8. Towards Embodied AI: Design Approaches for Robots in Opera
Elizabeth Jochum, Tim Hopkins, Chris Kiefer and Evelyn Ficarra
9. What Does it Mean? On Platform-Invariant "Body-Language" Dictionaries
Amy LaViers
10. Questions of Voice in AI Music.
Denis Crowdy and James Leach
11. What Do I Say? Public Interactions with a Drumming and Rapping Robot
Richard Savery, Trinity Melder and Melissa Hill
12. A.I. Anne: Advocacy, Empathy, and Creative Collaborations between Artists and Generative A.I.
Janet Biggs