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[Dutch Design Week] Entanglements with AI

    As part of [Design United Expo] at Dutch Design Week, members of Acting Like a Robot present “Entanglements with AI”. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally shaping future societies. It’s therefore important to understand AI’s role as a design material. This is more than the computation  – AI is a technology that can transform…

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NVP Lecture: Robots in Theater

NVP (The Dutch Association for Puppetry) Lecture: Robots in Theatre in collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company Saturday 22 Octoboer 2022, 10:00 Schouwburg Ogterop – Foyer (1), Zuideinde 70, 7941 GK Meppel **Event in Dutch / Register here. Maaike Bleeker,  Irene Alcubilla Troughton, and Marijke Hessels present Acting Like a Robots project “Robots in Theater” at…

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How to Be a Robot in a Supermarket?

  **Read the original article here In a future where humans and robots mingle in everyday settings such as supermarkets, robots should be designed to act appropriately so that people accept their presence and know how to respond to them. For example, how can the robot signal it does not want to be disturbed when…

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[SPRING Utrecht] Masterclass New Technologies in Performing Arts

  On Friday 20 May at Het Huis Utrecht, participants will be introduced to the NAO Re-Wired and Improvising Robots research projects, that are being developed as part of Acting Like a Robot: Theatre as Testbed for the Robot Revolution. This research is about the way theatre and robotics may mutually inform and inspire one another. NAO Re-Wired…

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Ulrike Quade Company presents Future Stages #2

Ulrike Quade Company, onze partner in het Acting Like a Robot onderzoek organiseert drie bijeenkomsten over theater & Technologie:     Denk met ons mee over de relatie tussen technologie en de podiumkunsten Datums: 23 maart | 20 april | 11 mei Yes! Vorig jaar geannuleerd door de pandemie…maar we mogen weer! Onder de naam Future…

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Second Workshop on Rule Based Robot Improvisation

Marit Adriaanse   On Friday the 11th of February, the second workshop on rule based robot improvisation of the Acting Like a Robot Research Project took place. The workshops are meant as a place for the exploration of rule-based improvisation techniques as a means for the development of Human-Robot Interaction. This workshop consisted of a…

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