From Pixels to Plastic
_Video: robotlab juke_bots project_
Watching robot arms is fun too.
This is from a project by a group called Robotlab in Germany. They buy decommissioned industrial robot arms and program them as super precise DJs. They’re incredible to watch. Uncanny is the only word.
This is pretty unusual with autonomous things though—mostly we have some kind of interaction with them. We do something, they do something back. We’re part of the loop.
I don’t know what it is about being part of the loop with something which is autonomous that makes it fun. When I drop a ball, it behaves in a certain way. So much blah blah. When i play with a feather, my cat responds in a certain way – a pretty known way actually – yet it’s a pleasure.
I don’t want to bother examining why this is. I just want to make use of it.