robotics – Radical Atoms

Roboaction(s) A1 K1

Vanessa Graf — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:34:05 +0000

Dragan Ilić

Roboaction(s)A1 K1 is a post-media art practice that combines drawing, movement, sound and video. In his project, Dragan Ilić executes a ten-minute performance/gestural action with an advanced robot, Kuka K210+DI, which allows his body to rotate at a speed of up to two to three meters per second. He achieves dramatic expression and numerous movements along a vertical and horizontal axis. Using a specially created tool made up of pencils or brushes, he executes his dynamic, monumental drawings on paper (or canvas). This in turn enables audio and video recordings of his art actions, which represent the means of his artistic post-production.

The idea behind the performance is based on a futuristic quest to achieve interaction between the body and the machine, the creation of multi-functional mobility and the realization of a hybrid body or android. This particular art action is based on his decades-long interest in the movement of elementary particles and their mechanical and magnetic rotations.

Courtesy of the artist and GV Art London

Robots in Architecture

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:53:06 +0000

The international Association for Robots in Architecture is originally a spin off association of Vienna University of Technology. Its goal is to make industrial robots accessible for the creative industry, artists, designers and architects, by sharing ideas, research results and technological developments. Founded in December 2010 by Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann, Robots in Architecture is an open platform for everybody interested in the creative use of and innovative fabrication with industrial robots. Robots in Architecture is engaged in applied research, soft- and hardware development, “robot pedagogics” – and in the question: how soon will robots revolutionize architecture?

PRINT A DRINK

PRINT A DRINK combines methods from robotics, life sciences, and design to explore a completely new field of 3D printing. Rather than building up objects layer by layer, the process uses a high-end KUKA iiwa robot to accurately “inject” microliter drops of edible liquid into a cocktail. Within a minute, PRINT A DRINK can build up complex 3D structures in a wide range of drinks—creating fascinating augmented cocktails using only natural ingredients. The process was developed by Benjamin Greimel at the new laboratory for creative robotics of the University of Arts and Design Linz and will utilize the latest-generation KUKA LBR iiwa robot—a robot built for man-machine collaboration. Credits: Benjamin Greimel; Philipp Hornung; Johannes Braumann; PRINT A DRINK; University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

sonic Degrees of Freedom

Sonic Degrees of Freedom – audiovisual environment translating the digital with analogue, and physical with virtual – turning a “collaborative” robot into a controller for the audio-visual environment, dancing sound-gesture. “SdoF” is set as an environment, so one can experience, how to move the interactive, anticipative machine, feeling the interactivity and responsiveness, the machine demands, while it is so feely, that one can move it with fingers, if force and movement are felt fully unthought, but done.

Concept / Idea / Realization: Johannes Braumann, Chris Noelle, Michael Schweiger
Johannes Braumann head of laboratory for creative robotics at UfG Linz, co-founded Robots in Architecture.
Michael Schweiger – sound artist / sonic thinker leads K2 Soundstudio at UfG Linz.
Chris Noelle – multimedia artist, in the fields of projection mapping, interactive design and lightpainting.
The chair for Individualized Production in Architecture at RWTH Aachen explores new robotic applications in the fields of design and construction.
Supported by KUKA Robotics CEE

Face Cartography

Vanessa Graf — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:31:08 +0000

Daniel Boschung

The composed mega-portraits are disturbing. Face Cartography is the Swiss publicity and news photographer Daniel Boschung’s latest project. He maps faces. Instead of taking pictures himself, he removes himself from the process by delegating the work to an ABB industrial robot controlled by specially customized software. The standardized portraits make a surprising impact. Each picture consists of about 600 single shots comprising 900 million pixels. The result is hype-realistic. Stubble turns into a trunk, a wrinkle into a canyon, a nostril into a cavern. These facial landscapes are dismaying—why? Emotions are completely absent. They appear only briefly, while macro photography takes half an hour. The human subject has to remain motionless while being photographed by the robot.

RoBoHoN – Heart moving phone

Vanessa Graf — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:34:07 +0000

RoBoHoN was developed through collaboration between SHARP Corporation and Tomotaka Takahashi, a world-famous robot creator, CEO of robot development company Robo Garage, and Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo’’ Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.

Tomotaka Takahashi has led the RoBoHoN project as an industrial designer, concept designer and motion developer, and as a result of two years’ project development effort, RoBoHoN launched in Japan in May 2016 as the world’s first mobile robotic phone.

To realize RoBoHoN’s “Heart moving phone” concept, RoBoHoN not only has the basic functions of a mobile phone but is also equipped with a camera, projector and robotics functions, including the voice communication system. These are all embedded in a compact humanoid robot body, 19.5 cm high and weighing only approx. 390 g, small enough to be carried anywhere.

In addition, the technology highlights of RoBoHoN are the newly developed servomotors, one of the smallest in the world, allowing this humanoid robot to walk on two legs in spite of its small body, and the newly developed built-in micro laser projector with focus-free operation, which allows users to project photos, videos, and maps onto a screen or a wall. Users can also download dedicated apps to give RoBoHoN new functions and services over Wi-Fi or mobile networks.

Artist Lab Matthew Gardiner

katjani — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:30:49 +0000

Matthew Gardiner

Matthew Gardiner is an expert in the field of Oribotics, having coined the field, and pioneered the fusion of origami, folding and robotics with his generations of Oribotic artworks. Gardiner’s artistic contexts include team-based research, and individual artworks with experience extending across aesthetic and experience design, digital manufacturing, expert-level origami and writing code. Gardiner is project lead for ORI.

ORI*
Folding matter by code

Our research begins with the premise: folding is coding for matter, an idea emerging from computer and molecular science, pointing to the idea that materials perform computation and ORI*, is a functional aesthetic way to sense, program and transform the code of matter.
For the Ars Electronica 2016, we present our vision for ORI*:

Niwashi—our interactive fabrication system: 3D scanned forms are algorithmically folded, then 3D printed with foldable material composites. Niwashi means “landscaper,” a role held by an accomplished master of nature and art. Combined with elastomers, these ready-foldable objects express high degrees of programmability and transformability.
ORI*BIT—our for the minimum building-block module for ORI* Systems: conceived as a foldable actuator and haptic sensor combined. Conceptually, an ORI*BIT, could be used to make an ORI*BOT, a more complex folded organism. ORI* includes the asterisk to express multiple domains of application, medium and scale; ORI* explores folding as a language to combine functional and aesthetic design for daily life.

Credits: Matthew Gardiner, Hideaki Ogawa, Roland Aigner, Rachel Hanlon, Erwin Reitböck and Ray Gardiner. Special thanks to Christopher Lindinger, Horst Hörtner and Benjamin Krux at Reprap Austria

This project is funded through the FWF PEEK Program and a research project of the Ars Electronica Futurelab.