New term for art: Sculptural Robotics

posted Sep 21st 2010 6:00am by Jakob Griffith
filed under: classic hacks

[Dan Roe] has been working on Sculptural Robotics for quite some time, and most recently presented his newest creation: Solar Flowers 2010. Typically, Sculptural Robotics (coined by [Dan] himself) are stand alone, static art presentations made from electronic components and wire. [Dan] of course has taken it quite a bit further; giving all his sculptures life using solar panels, motors, engine circuits, and more. Making them zero emission, and beautiful at the same time. You can catch four videos after the jump of his moving sculptures. Not that we’re picking favorites, but the dragonfly is pretty amazing if we do say so ourselves.

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tagged: art, robot, sculpture, solar

10 Responses to New term for art: Sculptural Robotics

therian says:

September 21, 2010 at 6:25 am

What he tried to take credit for inventing BEAM robotics ?

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osgeld says:

September 21, 2010 at 6:33 am

I like how he “went further” and made “Sculptural Robotics” that actually move

It makes me want to get some new “Sculptural Robotics” cause the ones on my desk are not doing it for me anymore (you know the telephone and computer mouse)

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joe57005 says:

September 21, 2010 at 7:04 am

i always cringe when i see good components wasted on “art,” at least on these installations the parts are actually doing something.

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Karl says:

September 21, 2010 at 7:21 am

There’s something to be learned from how his trilobot manages to get unstuck when navagaiting over rocks with such simple wheels

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Nancy says:

September 21, 2010 at 7:23 am

Some of his work is explicitly BEAM robotics–He’s not stealing credit, he cites Tilden all over the place and builds on the art and aesthetics side of BEAM. It’s all over his web site. Nice!

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Tech B. says:

September 21, 2010 at 7:24 am

@therian:
I thought the same thing, most of them look oddly like photopoppers.

For more intuitive BEAM robots check out http://www.solarbotics.net/bestiary/2410_popper_gal.html

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Nancy says:

September 21, 2010 at 7:38 am

Here is Dan Roe on the BEAM wiki:

http://www.beam-wiki.org/wiki/Aesthetics

He’s explicitly “a BEAMer.”

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Jon says:

September 21, 2010 at 8:36 am

check out Jim Mullins site also

http://botart.solarbotics.net/

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strider_mt2k says:

September 21, 2010 at 3:35 pm

WONDERFUL!

Thanks to HAD I’ve already built an inchworm-bot made of industrial scrap at work. (I provided the gear motor)

I was totally planning on building a solar spinner to run off the ambient light at my work bench and boom! -there’s an article on HAD.

I love this site!

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LadyCharis says:

September 23, 2010 at 8:24 am

@ joe57005

I agree with your comment, but a lot of the components used in ‘art’ are dead ones… for instance, everything /here/ (http://ladycharis.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ymqz4) is dead, but at least it has a second life as something pretty, and not gone to a landfill! :D

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