Within the past decade, robots have spread throughout society and entered the everyday lives of an increasing amount of people. Concurrently with this development, a novel class of robots have seen the light of day. Soft robotics designates a new approach to designing robots, anchored in the simple idea of using pliable and elastic materials such as silicone rubbers rather than metal or plastic. This thesis presents a study of soft robots across art and science. It explores alternative versions of what soft robotics might be or become if approached from the point of view of art and aesthetics. The overarching problem that the thesis addresses is how artistic and aesthetic practices might augment soft robotics and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the potentials and consequences of rendering a robot soft. The thesis combines analytical and practice-based research methods to address this problem, drawing on the fields and disciplines of artistic research, art history, human-robot interaction, and soft robotics. The thesis consists of seven research publications bound together by an introduction. The research presented examines what qualities and capacities of soft robots that emerge in contemporary projects within fields of aesthetic practice that incorporate soft robotics technology. It contributes to rethinking and contextualizing soft robot aesthetics in relation to historical artworks and art practices and to constructing an aesthetic genealogy of soft robotic art that can help to elucidate its aesthetics. By means of an empirical human-robot interaction experiment the thesis seeks to nuance statements and claims made about human perceptions of soft robots within technical literature and to gain insights into the spontaneous interaction behaviors elicited by soft robots. Through artistic practice the thesis interrogates how soft robotics technology can come to function as an artistic medium. Furthermore, it shows how artistic and aesthetic practices can be productive of other types of knowledges ...
Constructing Soft Robot Aesthetics - Art, Sensation, and Materiality in Practice
2019-01-01
Jørgensen , J 2019 , Constructing Soft Robot Aesthetics - Art, Sensation, and Materiality in Practice . IT-Universitetet i København .
Buch
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC: | 629 |
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