**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…

  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…

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…

  With the Acting Like a Robot research we participated in the development of Ulrike Quade’s latest creation: a spect acular welcome act (titled Okay, I’m Al-x) and a poetic performance (titled Rocky the Robot) for the Floriade 2022 exhibition in Almere. At the entrance of the Floriade the visitor encounters a four-and-a-half meter high…

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…

  Marit Adriaanse   On Thursday the 10th of February the sixth sprint of the collaborative project between Bram Ellens and the Ulrike Quade Company for Floriade 2022, which is part of the Acting Like a Robot research project, took place in Almere. The session started with the invitation to the attendees to watch the…

  Date: 20 January 2022 Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Location: Microsoft Teams Event page     In the upcoming Transmission in Motions seminar, Marco Rozendaal and Maaike Bleeker investigate how insights from the theatre may inform the design of smart objects. See below for more information!   The increased integration of computation and networking capabilities…

  Ruowen Xu     Here’s what’s thrown at you when you walk along the alley to the robot prisoners with Bram for the first time: before you can take a decent look at anything at all behind the fervent audience of adults and many children, it is a shrill and loud whipping sound that…

Irene Alcubilla Troughton     In this project, Acting like a Robot collaborates with Ulrike Quade (director of the Ulrike Quade Company) in the exploration of the relationship between robot and puppet, as well as programmer and puppeteer. The goal of this project is two-fold: on the one hand, it tries to explore the theatrical…

Marijke Hessels The tenth of july was a first for a lot of things. Research collaborators of the Acting Like A Robot project Ulrike Quade and Koen Hindriks met again in real life, after a period of online meetings as we have all grown accustomed to. A short and experimental new module for students of…