robots robotics

The Seeker

Nye Thompson (UK)

The Seeker is a proto-AI that travels the world virtually looking through compromised surveillance camera eyes and describing its visions. Named for Ptah-Seker, the artist/technologist god of Ancient Egypt, who created the world by speaking the words to describe it, this project looks at how the act of describing the world might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.

SEER: Simulative Emotional Expression Robot

Takayuki Todo (JP)

SEER is a compact humanoid robot developed through intensive research into the gaze and facial expressions of human beings.

NORAA – Machinic Doodles

Jessica In (UK/AU)

Machinic Doodles is an interactive game installation that examines the collaboration between a human and a robot named NORAA, an artificial intelligence that is learning to draw.

Ai-Da Robot Artist

Oxfordians (UK, INT), Aidan Meller (UK), Lucy Seal (UK)

Ai-Da ist der weltweit erste ultrarealistische KI-Künstlerroboter. Sie kann zeichnen und ist Performance-Künstlerin. Als Maschine mit KI-Fähigkeiten ist ihre Künstlerpersönlichkeit selbst das Kunstwerk, ebenso wie ihre Zeichnungen, Performancekunst und kollaborativen Gemälde und Skulpturen. Sie ermutigt uns, über ethische Fragen bei der Entwicklung neuer Technologien nachzudenken.

UngenauBot

Ilmar Hurkxkens (NL), Fabian Bircher (CH)

UngenauBot combines highly developed robot technology with an everyday rubber glove performing banal activities. By deliberately exploiting empirical errors in robotic systems and artificial intelligence, this work demonstrates the limits of technology when things don’t go according to plan.