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Greg Schenk
The Crawler, 2015
Robot crawler, video screen and prosthetic hands. 4’ x 3’ x 2’ $7500 Website: http://www.gwschenk.com/ Photo by Jennifer Maldonado VO by Mari Weiss |
“Crawler is about intentional and unintentional self-imposed mental and physical limitations; in what ways do we restrict
ourselves from becoming who and what we want to be?”
Greg Schenk
DESCRIPTION:
"Greg Schenk’s Crawler is a robot with prosthetic hands and a video screen of moving eyes for a face.
The robot’s video screen face is short and wide. It is attached to a metal rod and mounted on top of the center frame. The screen shows a pair of eyes and eyebrows. These eyes blink and dart from side to side and up and down.
The robot has two motorized metal rods attached to a rectangular frame. These rods act as its arms. At the end of each arm is a prosthetic human hand, complete with pores and wrinkles. The hands are made of a light blue rubbery material. They seem like surgical or protective gloves. The hands reach out and drag the robot around in a jerky circle. The entire crawler moves around on a 5 foot square platform.
Can you hear it move?" -A. Laura Brody
The robot’s video screen face is short and wide. It is attached to a metal rod and mounted on top of the center frame. The screen shows a pair of eyes and eyebrows. These eyes blink and dart from side to side and up and down.
The robot has two motorized metal rods attached to a rectangular frame. These rods act as its arms. At the end of each arm is a prosthetic human hand, complete with pores and wrinkles. The hands are made of a light blue rubbery material. They seem like surgical or protective gloves. The hands reach out and drag the robot around in a jerky circle. The entire crawler moves around on a 5 foot square platform.
Can you hear it move?" -A. Laura Brody
Opulent Mobility by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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