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Richard Savery is an Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts, affiliated with the Performance and Expertise Research Centre and the Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence. His work bridges artificial intelligence, robotics, and music, focusing on creative interactions and trust-building through robotic musicianship. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology (2021) and a Master's from UC Irvine. Key roles include developing the NSF-funded Keirzo rapping/drumming robot and publishing the edited book Sound and Robotics (2023).
Research interests include emotional musical prosody, human-robot collaboration, and robotic performance. Notable projects include Shimon the singing robot and IVF sonification. Awards include a GANG Award (2015) for game audio. Active in interdisciplinary collaborations, he has composed music for films, ads, and video games, including Gunman Taco Truck and Gathering Sky.
His work spans academic grants ($800k NSF-NRI grant), industry partnerships, and public installations like the Un[contained] Arts Festival's beehive exhibit. Over 50 publications highlight his contributions to robotics, music tech, and AI ethics.
