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Purveyor of Idle Observation

Video of an experiment in robot-building-slash-social-engineering by Tisch School of the Arts student Kacie Kinzer has been making the rounds. Video embedded below:

In her words:

I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.