Robotics: Informative artPresented by: Dan

Ehlke

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Introduction Translator II Profiler Fish, Plant Rack Questions

Introduction

Purpose: comparison of various robots to compare the unique inputs and outputs possible for interpretation.

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Created by Sabrina Raaf▪ Chicago-based Artist

Dimensions: 2’h x 2’w x 17”d

Materials: custom robotics, sensors, and ink drawing

CO2 sensor (wall mounted) Sends data wirelessly takes a reading of the CO2

level every few seconds VIDEO

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“The height of the ‘grass’ directly reflects on the human activity or traffic in the space.”

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“Watching the artistic output of a machine that is so sensitive to its environment makes the people in the space more sensitive to their environment and its conditions.”

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“The grower also provides a memory through it’s drawings of those conditions.”

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“Grower offers a model where both machines and humans effect each other by their involuntary cooperation.”

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“It is a model where human and machine behaviors interact in a mutually informative and dynamic manner.”

Profiler Created by German

Organization called ‘Robotlab’

Robot Lab works to put industrial robots in public places through art pieces and installations.

Serves as an art piece and a way to expose humans to robots

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Fish, Plant, Rack

Andy Gracie Interaction between

Fish, Plant & Robot Robot: polycarbonate

body, low geared DC motor, standard servo motors.

microcontroller mounted on the back receives the calls from the AI and sequences out the actions of the device.

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The Bible Writer

Installation Created by ‘Robotlab’

Industrial Robot that writes out all 66 books of the bible.

Questions ? Thoughts ?

Resources

http://www.raaf.org/ http://www.martinahaitz.de/ http://www.hostprods.net/