“RUDEbot” presented by Kalman, Lee, Leong and Laurenzo Coronel

Symposium:

• ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art

• RUDEbot

• Tarr Kalman
• Yung Ki Lee
• Pui Yee Leong
• Tomás Laurenzo Coronel

• In this talk we present RUDEBot, a robotic artwork that explores the distribution of power in Human-Robot Interaction. The artwork consists of a robot that tracks its spectators and attempts to hit them with a wooden stick. By breaking the conventional rules of robotic behaviour adding a controlled amount of violence, RUDEbot emphasizes the limitations of power structures in HRI.

  RUDEbot is an robotic art piece that has his own character. In this project we’ve decide to break one of the law of “Three Law of Robotics”, it hits its audience when they intrude his “private space”. RUDEbot is a face recognition bot that interacts with the viewer in front of it. Its camera traces and tracks audiences’ face, and determines the hitting action whenever the audience enters the “private space” of RUDEbot, which is a distance in the programed. As the audiences look into it, it will stare back with movements. As the audiences’ face move backwards, RUDEbot will trace in and lean forward; and vice versa as the viewer goes nearer, RUDEbot will lean backwards as if it is shy or scared. When the viewer got too near and RUDEbot tracks it, the arm will rotate between 0 degrees to 180 degrees and hit the audience.

Project Website:

• https://rudebot2015.wordpress.com/

Video:

• RUDEbot from Pui Yee on Vimeo.