Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer

About a year ago I came across the ITP graduate program at NYU-Tisch I was amazed and excited by the work their student do. It's a program that describes itself as a "center for the recently possible"; students study media, electronics and programming and use them in innovative ways.

So it was no surprise when I stumbled across an experiment in human-robot interactions that it turned out to be an ITP project by Kacie Kinzer in the ITP program. The project is called (adorably) Tweenbots and the goal is to get a helpless and robot from Point A to Point B. The robot cannot steer, is not robust and elicits human interaction with a flag that states "Help! Get me to my destination".

Watch the video and enjoy the soundtrack