Our Fall 2009 Project Studio explored Speculative Robotics: using design to critically explore and express possible future applications, adaptations, and appropriations of robotics technology. From this experimentation comes future forms and functions for robotics, and just as significantly, critical reflections on our current social and environmental conditions, expressed through design.

Below are links to the individual projects. You can also read one-paragraph overviews of each on the Speculative Robotics project page.

BuddhaBot, Amy Cheng, Lead Designer
…robots, lotuslocations, solitude, and the city…
View the BuddhaBot video
View the BuddhaBot website

Domestibeasts, Cinque Hicks and Delisha Peterson, Lead Designers
…nomadic robotic structures for living…
View the Domestibeasts video
View the Domestibeasts website

Envirodrone, Thomas Barnwell, Lead Designer
…re-purposing military robotics for environmental monitoring…
View the Envirodrone video
View the Envirodrone website

growBot Symposium, Laura Fries, Lead Designer
…robots, organic farming, and participatory design…
View the growBot Symposium video
View the growBot Symposium website

Huggable Garden Hye Yeon Nam, Lead Designer
…robotic interfaces to objects of nature…
View the Huggable Garden video
View the Huggable Garden website

Mall-E, Tanyoung Kim, Lead Designer
…robot scribes and cave painters…
View the Mall-E video
View the Mall-E website

POWER Booth, Ethiopia Hewitt, Lead Designer
…sensing and vibration as power source…
View the POWER booth video.

Urban Brownfield Remediation Robot, Hwajung Hong, Lead Designer
…robots and urban remediation…
View the Urban Brownfield Remediation Robot video
View the Urban Brownfield Remediation Robot website