Robotics
Hypergesture – Work In Progress Report
April 28, 2020 | John Lucy | One CommentHypergesture is a kinetic sculpture exploring gestures of light and sound through robotics. I have chosen a mechanism originally from surgical robotics that constrains end effector movement to along the surface of a sphere. This mechanism only has two degrees … Read More
Solar Powered Robotics: Resource Constrained Interactivity
October 29, 2018 | Enrico CacciapuotiSince their introduction in the last 60 years, solar panels represented not only an opportunity to use renewable resources for general utility, but also a powerful tool to feed solar powered robots and artworks. Thanks to a direct conversion from … Read More
@heyhexx – work in progress show
July 2, 2018 | Patsaraporn Liewatanakorn @heyhexx is an interactive social media responsive robot puppet theatre installation. This installation acts as an intermediary tool between the digital and physical world, and aims to make the abstract concept of emotions, in the context of social media interaction, … Read More
My Emotive Bot
March 23, 2018 | Parvin FarahzadehThese last six weeks I tried to give my hacked robot behaviour and make it more alive for the person to interact with it easily. My aim was to investigate the possibility of replacing behaviour based language instead of verbal … Read More
Personalized Robot and Bio Sensing
March 23, 2018 | Parvin FarahzadehI had a discussion about appending personality to the robot in addition to setting behavior based on biodata. I made a model of mobile Keepon with DC motors and proximity sensors to control the mobility. it was suggested to add … Read More
The Role of Intuition in Designing Human-Robot Interfaces
September 14, 2017 | Luca Giacolini“I can’t define a robot, but I know one when I see one.” [1]
More than a century ago, in 1898, Nikola Tesla first made use of radio signals to remotely control a miniature boat in … Read More
Electrophysiology: In Control and Being Controlled
November 9, 2015 | ialab admin‘Computers will overtake humans with AI at some within the next 100 years.’ said by Stephen Hawking (2015) at the Zeitgeist conference. Artificial Intelligence may be little far away from our life at present. But another technology has been invented … Read More
From Domestic Plants to Cyber Gardens
April 8, 2015 | William Victor CamilleriWhy do we keep plants at home? It may seem that the practice of plant keeping lacks significance because we have domesticated animals to the point where they became part of the family, but plants are still viewed as stationary pets. … Read More
Fearful Symmetry
August 19, 2012 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentTomorrow I go into the Tate Modern to install my new interactive work that has been a year in the making. That among other things is the reason this blog has been so quiet in recent times … Read More
Marilena Skavara – Adaptive Fa[ca]de
February 26, 2010 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsHere’s a great project that came out our Interactive Architecture research at the Bartlett School of Architecture. ‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ by Marilena Skavara explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of … Read More
Leo Nunez – Emergence Exhibition
December 22, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnAnother piece of work from the Emergence Exhibition “Propagations” by Leo Nunez is a system of cellular automatons, made up by 50 robots. Different states emerge from this complex system. These states are defined not only by the interaction … Read More
Robo-Bricky
July 30, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentIn Fläsch, the winegrowers Martha and Daniel Gantenbein took advantage of the success of their Pinot Noir to replace their steel containers with oak barrels. They commissioned the architects Bearth & Deplazes with the design and construction of a … Read More
Choe U Ram – Anima Machines
April 11, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnKorean artist, Choe U Ram, creates massive, precision engineered sculptures with an eerie organic feel. He uses cut and polished metals, machinery and electronics to create kinetic sculptures inspired by sea creatures and plant life.
Exploring the … Read More
Wall of Eyes – Adrian Baynes
February 27, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsWall of Eyes by Adrian Baynes is an interactive public artwork, comprising of 225 mannequin eyes, which follow the viewer through space.
Its just one of the kinetic installations showing for the first time at Kinetica Art Fair opening … Read More
VIDA
April 23, 2008 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentHere are a number videos of installations and sculptures on the theme of artificial life which won awards at VIDA last year. Via wmmna
Mission eternity sarcophagus
Etoy.corporation launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the … Read More
Joseph Weizenbaum – AI & Humanity
April 21, 2008 | Ruairi GlynnJoseph Weizenbaum died at the ripe old age of 85 last month (NYTime Obituary). Weizenbaum was best known for ELIZA, a program designed in 1966 to establish natural language conversation with a computer by emulating a Rogerian therapist (Online … Read More
Insect Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems
April 14, 2008 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsThe Hybrid Insect Micro Electro Mechanical Systems project aims to create literal shutterbugs – camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities. DARPA researchers are also raising cyborg beetles … Read More
Adaptive Evolutionary Robotics
April 11, 2008 | Ruairi GlynnHod Lipson demonstrates a few of his little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings … Read More
Press Play: V
We've just finished the fifth edition of the 'Press Play' workshop series — once again at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. It's always a pleasure teaching hard working students, alongside h...
