Is it robotics? Is it performance art? Is it not just a little bit creepy?
Watching this remarkable robotic chair fall apart and put itself back together rather bizarrely reminds me of two Disney classics. The whole thing is similar to the sequence in Fantasia where the mops come to life - a scene that quite terrified me as a child. There is also something very Bambi about the moment the freaky wooden creature learns to stand on its own four legs.
The ´self-healing´ chair is the product of a collaboration between robotics engineer Raffaello D´Andrea and artist Max Dean. It functions through a sophisticated combination of computer algorithms and robotic components.
