Robotics

  • Future Mobility Lounge

    Future Mobility Lounge

    Future Mobility Lounge was a talk and workshop event on future mobility and sustainability, jointly organized by Hyundai Mobility Japan, which is Hyundai Motor Company’s Japanese subsidiary, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It was held on October 28 and 29, 2022, at the Hyundai Customer Experience Center in Yokohama, Japan, in a unique event format that…

  • OutReach

    OutReach

    Telepresence is a great tool that gives people the ability to be in far away places without having to travel. Telepresence robots like Double Robot are great tools for communication. However, they usually lack ways to interact physically with their environment. This reduces the autonomy and freedom of movement of robot users. This way, telepresence…

  • CoBot Studio

    CoBot Studio

    As humans and robots work together ever more closely, their joint success is linked to certain preconditions: How do you create safe working environments? How can we increase the acceptance of robots in everyday work? And how do you communicate with a colleague who consists only of a gripper arm?

  • pinocchio

    pinocchio

    Two industrial robots play the role of two marionettes. The motions of a human puppeteer were recorded and are copied by the two robot arms. What happens when we are able to digitalize and therefore replicate highly complicated human abilities such as puppetry?

  • Robotinity Exhibition

    Robotinity Exhibition

    Human beings have been developing machines for thousands of years. But what drives us on to do so? Is it the urge to understand and recreate nature and its processes? Is it perhaps our audacious pretensions to be capable of improving on the world as it is? Or are we just curious?

  • Human Robot Harmony – Humanoid Robot „Honda ASIMO“

    Human Robot Harmony – Humanoid Robot „Honda ASIMO“

    Ars Electronica Futurelab and Honda R&D were conducting collaborative research into the next generation-relationship between humans and robots. From industrial robots supporting the production process to humanoid robots, many researchers have explored the range of possibilities for robots.

  • RoboLab

    RoboLab

    The heart piece of the first main exhibition “New Views of Humankind” in 2009 was constituted by four public accessible labs.

  • Geminoid Research Collaboration

    Geminoid Research Collaboration

    How can a person’s unique personality and essential character traits be captured, simulated and imparted to a robot?