Anatomical Exoskeleton

Website deposited by Barry Smith, University of Bristol, 2006 and implemented into AHDS content delivery system.

Description

Anatomical Exoskeleton is a continuation of the SCI-ART: BIO-ROBOTIC CHOREOGRAPHY project supported by The Wellcome Trust. The project is working in collaboration with the School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences at The University of Sussex to explore the interfaces between the robot and sensor technologies. The Human-Machine Choreography project was an interdisciplinary project performed by the Digital Research Unit in the School of Art and Design at The Nottingham Trent University It involved the development of a six-legged walking machine using an anatomical exoskeleton apparatus that explores a novel hybrid human-machine system.

The second stage of the project is sub-titled 'Anatomical Exoskeleton'. The second stage of the research further explores the creative possibilities for art and dance performance. The second stage in the research aimed to:

• explore and translate human movement into insect and animal-like machine locomotion.
• experiment with virtual and VRML interfaces with the physical robot for use in interactive web performance and to extend audience participation.
• explore the sound potential presented not only by amplifying the machine sounds, created by the pneumatic and mechanical elements, but also by using pressure- and orientation- sensors.

About this web site

This web site contains the project outputs of the original Sci-Art web site. The outputs include documentation, photographs and animations stored in the GIF and Flash format. They are reproduced on this web site 'as is', in the original format in which they were created.

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Project Overview and Credits	Further information about the project
Muscle Machine	Details of the Muscle Machine project
Photographs	Photographs taken during the development of the robot
Videos	Moving Image videos related to the project