It takes brains to make robots perform as art
What if their behavior is controlled by the brainwaves of two human beings?
San Francisco artist Kal Spelletich has built a career by hijacking ideas from engineering and science, then giving them the feel of flesh and blood.
For three performances this weekend at the experimental art space the Lab, identical 16-foot robots will move and interact, controlled by electrical impulses from the brains of two attendees.
From the look of a preview video, the robots are more like giant disembodied arms with lethal claws than humanoids.
An announcement calls the project “an experiment in improving people’s lives by exemplifying the poetry of the mind.”
“Can we create empathy for a robot?” a statement asks.