MOCO 2020

The RAD Lab presented 3 new works at MOCO 2020 this week.  (And check out Babyface on the homepage of the next MOCO in 2022!) R. Kaushik, A. K. Mishra (Siemens), and A. LaViers. “Feasible Stylized Mo- tion: Robotic Manipulator Imitation of a Human Demonstration with Collision Avoidance and Style in Increasingly Cluttered Environments.” 7th International

RSS 2020

Workshops build community.  Come check out ours Sunday morning (Pacific time) at RSS 2020: https://radlab.mechse.illinois.edu/rss-2020-workshop/ 

Article in American Scientist

The July/August issue of American Scientist magazine features an article by Amy LaViers, featuring our work with artist-in-residence Kate Ladenheim alongside lots of contributions from the lab more broadly: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/dancing-with-robots.

HRI 2020

Although HRI 2020 was canceled this year, we are really excited that everyone can watch the virtual presentation by Kate Ladenheim (also in the picture above) describing our paper in this year’s proceedings “Live Dance Performance Investigating the Feminine Cyborg Metaphor with a Motion-activated Wearable Robot” by Kate Ladenheim, Reika McNish, Wali Rizvi, and Amy

Event Moving Virtual — IPRH-sponsored Participatory Performance Cancelled

Due to the new campus policy regarding COVID-19, “Circuit Circus presents: Saunter, Skitter, Stride: a Participatory Event to Study Locomotion Styles in Humans and Robots”, is cancelled.  We are moving to a virtual format and will update this page with details as soon as we have them! Description: The IPRH Research cluster “Understanding Movement Style

CRCI 2020

Another successful and inspiring CRCI 2020! Pictured: Kate Ladenheim performing “Babyface” The People Movers x The RAD Lab at this year’s CRCI.

The Performance Arcade 2020

The lab’s collaborative work with artist in residence Kate Ladenheim opened in Wellington, NZ at this year’s Performance Arcade.  This art installation includes live performance and interactive participation. This installation is about a femme cyborg who was made to be perfect, uncovering a tension between humans and machines through original sound, choreography, and interaction with

Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

Amy, giving the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on January 28. Talk details at http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/13/art-tech-culture/3224/dancing-with-robots-expressivity-in-natural-and-artificial-systems. [Update:] Talk recording at https://archive.org/details/20200127amylaviers. References: [1] E. R. Truitt. Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. [2] A. LaViers. Learning the Primary Colors of Dance.

MOCO 2019.

The RAD Lab had three presentations at MOCO 2019 at ASU this past week: A Practice Work presentation of A Machine (above). Y. Zhou, M.Asselmeier, and A. LaViers. “Toward Expressive Multi-Platform Tele- operation: Laban-Inspired Concurrent Operation of Multiple Joints on the Re- think Robotics Baxter Robot in Static and Dynamic Tasks.” 6th International Conference on Movement

RO-MAN 2019 Workshop: Schedule and Event Images

Inspired from our rich “artist-in-residence” program, the RAD Lab presents a workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2019 on merging artistic and research practice.  After an international call for performances, we are excited to present work from our colleagues at Oregon State University and University of Bristol as well as new work from the RAD Lab.  The full schedule is now posted…