Performance
This is the year of the robot, starting with the movie Ex Machina and filtering down to the performing arts, which have seen a spate of humans dancing with robots in touching pas de deux.
Performance
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
Opinion
While the internet mourns the passing of one of its many fads of the moment, more sinister robots are coming to life in its wake.
Art
Last Saturday, a giant robot unfolded its jointed inflatable arms in Red Hook to creep out into a lattice of temporary architecture.
Art
We're fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World's Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th centuries (there turned out to be a human hiding inside the latter, but still). Now a team at the Universi