Taming a horde of robots (Manus)
Channel: Madeline Gannon
Date: 2018-11-06

Manus is a set of ten industrial robots that we have tamed to behave like a pack of animals. While each robot moves independently, they share the same central brain. So instead of acting in isolation, they have intertwined behaviors that ripple through the group as people walk by. Like many of today’s intelligent autonomous machines, the robots in Manus don’t look like and they don’t act like us — but they can still connect with us in meaningful ways.

See additional design and implementation details at the full project page: https://atonaton.com/manus/


Project Credits:
Manus was commissioned by The World Economic Forum for their 2018 Annual Meeting of New Champions, in Tianjin, China.
Development Team: Madeline Gannon, Julián Sandoval, Kevyn McPhail, Ben Snell
Sponsors: NVIDIA and ABB Ltd.

Music By: Ketsa, "Moon Lie Full"