Robotic Speak Episode 124 – Robots within the performing arts, with Amy LaViers

Claire chatted to Amy LaViers from the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab concerning the inventive relationship between people and machines.

Amy LaViers works on the intersection of robotics and dance. Her writing, choreography, and machine designs have been introduced internationally at performing arts and engineering venues, together with Merce Cunningham’s studios, the Efficiency Arcade, and universities like Berkeley and Brown. She is the founding father of three startup firms, together with AE Machines, which gained “Product Design of the Yr” on the 4th Rev Awards in Chicago. Amy runs the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab, a non-profit for art-making, commercialization, training, outreach, and analysis.