Robot puppetry makes 'alien art' at the Tate Tanks

[Dave Monroe]

Artist Ruairi Glynn has premiered a unique piece of installation art
at Tate Modern in London, using a technique he calls "mechanical
puppetry".

His "delta robot", normally found on factory production lines, has
been redesigned to work as a piece of interactive, performance art.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19357951

Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Marionette Theater‎" (1810)

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1144768

"A remarkable innovation would be the use of automata, to play Su
Feng's handmaidens.  'A German engineer is building them,' said
Itague.  'They're lovely creatures: one will even unfastened your
robe. Another will play a zither--although the music itself comes from
the pit.  But they move so gracefully!  Not like machines at all."
(V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 396)

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