Normative Futures - National Institute of design

Workshop Vulnerable Machines

Explore the interaction between human-machine under the hypothesis that the industrial robots are vulnerable and fragile machines. Throughout history and pop culture the idea of robots as superhumans: study, durable, error-free and tireless has been sold to us; however the reality is the opposite. The machine requires assistance or care when in use, frequent maintenance and programmation (usually imperative) to actuate.