3 papers
cs.HC2025
Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford +9
Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create…
cs.HC2025
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction
Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila +9
As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artist…
cs.RO2024
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics
Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders +5
We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Broncomatic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bu…