His teachers were disciplinarians who insisted on proper posture and hand position, emphasizing technique and theory at the expense of creativity.
Weinberg has developed a number of novel musical instruments for novices, such as the Beatbugs,[3] and the Squeezables [4] before conceiving the field of Robotic Musicianship.
In 1991, Weinberg and his partner Yigal Barkat founded a company called Sense Multimedia, which produced a CD-Rom edition of the Carta atlas, established The Third Ear website and developed one of the first karaoke software programs.
Dr. Weinberg research aims at expanding musical expression, creativity, and learning through meaningful applications of technology.
With his improvising robotic musicians, Haile and Shimon, he has traveled worldwide, featuring dozens of concerts and presentations in festivals and conferences such as SIGGRAPH, DLD, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.