Gil Weinberg, Ph.D. is a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba-playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic robotic arm for amputees that restores and enhances human drumming abilities. Weinberg will discuss this and other robotics projects as an allegory to unlocking our own creative potential. If we can teach a robot to be creative – to improvise, to think on its feet, to draw cues from others for where to head next – surely we can unlock that same potential within ourselves.