Capricious creatures: Animal behaviour as a model for robotic art. Issue 1 (1st March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pullen, Treva Michelle
• Is Part Of: Technoetic arts. Volume 15:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 53
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2017-03-01
• Subjects: Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge -- Periodicals; Interdisciplinary research -- Periodicals; Consciousness -- Periodicals; High technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 001
• DOI: 10.1386/tear.15.1.53_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-965X

Abstract

The lure of animal instinct appears to be an important consideration for the development of intelligent (or simulated intelligent) robotic creatures. Studying the behaviours and playful engagements of animals (like humans) provides robotic artists with a plethora of engagements from which to draw and mimic in their development of whimsical-behaving robot bodies. Animals, as the human other, present us with a counterpoint from which we can study robots as lively entities.