Googly-Eyed SnoutBot Is Watching You
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 20 of October , 2008 at 3:47 am
Suicide Bots posted about the Opto-Isolator yesterday, a wicked cool piece of freaky robotic artwork that we covered on OhGizmo back in February. On the designer’s website there’s a video of Double-Taker (Snout), a robotic art installation that debuted at the Robot 250 festival in Philadelphia Pittsburgh. Double Taker sits on the roof of a building, and “deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance:”
Double Taker consists of an 8 foot long robotic arm with a bi eye on the end of it, controlled by software that tracks people as they pass. And then looks away, and back again. If you ask me, there’s nothing cuter than a curious robot with a giant googly eye that looks like an elephant’s trunk.
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Category: Art
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Comment by Ironman
Made Monday, 20 of October , 2008 at 3:22 pm
i think it’s amazing how many people don’t even see it.
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 12:43 am
I dunno, how often do YOU look for robots on the roofs of buildings? :p
Comment by Ironman
Made Tuesday, 21 of October , 2008 at 10:30 am
you’d be surprised.
plus it’s HUGE. and it LOOKs at you.
