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28 April 2023

Come Closer?

Visitors are prompted to consider their responses and preconceptions to robotic and AI technologies. This exhibit is part of the Bringing the Human to the Artificial exhibition.

Hand and robot

What feelings are evoked when you see a robot caged? Relief? A sense of safety? Or does it make you feel uncomfortable to see robots behind bars? Perhaps the more they resemble humans, the more you project upon them the emotions and reactions that we consider to be human.

This installation in the front window of the Arcade in Bush House prompts visitors to consider their responses and preconceptions to robotic and AI technologies. It invites them to come closer, to enter the cage, and to consider a future where robots are not caged away, but live amongst us.

Find out more about the King's researchers who aim to bring robots closer to humans in ways that are ethical, safe and valuable.

Pepper

Exhibited with kind permission of the Social AI & Robotics Lab and the Department of Engineering, King’s College London

Baxter

Exhibited with kind permission of the Department of Engineering, King’s College London

Nao

Exhibited with kind permission of the Department of Informatics, King’s College London

TurtleBot3

Exhibited with kind permission of the Department of Informatics, King’s College London

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Installation by Parker Design Consultants Limited, Sam Piper, Charlotte Palmer, Henrique Schmitz

With thanks to Gerard Canal, Oya Celiktutan and the Social AI & Robotics Lab