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…

A first collaboration between Ulrike Quade Company and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam took place in June in the frame of a master’s programme workshop aimed at creating Socially Intelligent Robots. A final performance showing the results of such workshop was developed. Here you will see the documentation of that event.   The pictures were taken by…

As a kick-off of our project Acting Like a Robot, the video “A Robot Walked into the Theatre”, made by the Transketeers, was aired in SPRING on Screen. Here, the pictures taken by Chris Rijksen show the backstage of the debut    

Performing Robots is launching a Facebook and Instagram account today Be sure to follow us in our social media so that you can get informed of events, workshops and reports about our current projects! You will also be able to get a peak into the robots we are working with.

On the 19th of March, a festive kick-off of the new research project Acting Like a Robot: Theatre as Testbed for the Robot Revolution will take place. Robots are rapidly becoming integrally part of the performance of everyday life, work, education, and leisure. This situation presents challenges to their developers with regard to their design as social…