“We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connection and sociable robots may offer the illusion of companionship without the demand of friendship” -Sherry Turkle-

“About Us” is a human-robot ritual that analyses our dependency towards technology in completing trivial tasks. The satirical approach of the video-clip is directly inspired by the masterpiece of C. Chaplin “Eating Machine”, that 80 years ago paved the way for critical thinking in robotics. The ritual consists of four separate steps, all every much inspired by my own rutines. Four objects make for an evening date that begins with preparing to meet a partner, it goes on to dining and eventually smoking a cigarette and relaxing. Silly enough, the partner is a robotic arm UR10. Eventually, is the robot fulfilling the human purposes or is the technology mastering the human?

Getting prepared for dinner: robotic hair combing

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Assisted eating: robotic spoon feeding

 

Cleaniness   after dinner: robotic mouth wiping

 

Relaxing through a cigarette: robotic smoke dispenser

 

Final video

https://vimeo.com/234480843

 

Cited Work

. Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, 2013, print.

. Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1apYo6-Ow on September 21st 2017.