Robots Edition

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Residency 1

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Residency 1 •

Learnings

MONDAY < ADD TIME 10:00 AM >

  • The levels of control Spot operates on - manual, automated canned skills and the choreography mdoe through the SDK. 

    Modalities raised questions on agency and control - who or what was leading the movements of Spot.

    Hijacking game

Made a future note - how do we engage people who are more wary of spot.

Goals

  • First contact

  • Get comfortable with Spot and its technicalities

What stood out

  • Jessica - trying to keep breathing, watching v and trying to imagine confidence = anxious, spot is scary because it can move, untethered, 1 in the space > 2 

  • Varsha - want to count number of joints and move every part of it, less threatening than kuka arms, spot is slower,

  • Varsha - excited, curious, want to push boundaries, confidence 

  • Jessica - anxious, closed in body language, also buzzing slightly

Introduction to Choreographer: Work through the gestures; get comfortable with using the software; get comfortable being around Spot; try putting gestures together.

Remember the first time spot walked into the room.

  • Elijah’s notes on this.

Learnt about the different types of control - manual, learnt/automated, choreography through the SDK and computer. Is there a hierarchy to the types of control. 

Hijacking

Learning about how spot senses the terrain 

Different components of the hardware

Safety mechanism in the robot - nto available when it is in dance mode.

First Contact : Highlights

Discovered

End of day

Unconsciously anthropomorphizing Spot - telling sign of how quickly humans build relationships with non-human entities moving in the space alongside.

Deepening Understanding

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TUESDAY < ADD TIME 10:00 AM >

Continuation of Choreographer: Get familiar with what gesture sequences Spot can/cannot do; try making phrases or “dances.

Goals

Deepen understanding of choreography software and create versions of Max’s choreography

Does the “user-friendly” choreographer interface democratize access or is it an illusion of simplicity. If simple, then why dance?

Role reversal in approaches - Varsha newfound caution with the software while Jessica more confident. Until we collectively experiences first glitch. Elijah notes - “everyone curled in on themselves”

Highlights

Comfort levels fluctuate like a graph - within the lab and outside perception of Spot. What is presumed safety versus reality - how human s get used to a normal.