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ROBOTS, BUILT AROUND THE IDEA.

Selected projects in creative robotics, human–robot interaction and custom prototype development. Each case began with a distinct physical challenge and became a working robotic experience through mechanical design, fabrication, electronics and control.

SELECTED ROBOTS

SLAPBOT

INTERACTIVE ROBOTIC ARTWORK · SOFT PNEUMATICS · HUMAN–ROBOT INTERACTION

SLAPBOT is an interactive robotic artwork by Hooman Samani, Cheng (Chandler) Chang and Saina Akhond. It explores physical interaction, artificial agency and power through a robotic arm fitted with a soft, inflatable hand.

Pneumatic actuation transforms the familiar gesture of a slap into a precise, repeatable robotic movement. Viewers activate the work with sound — such as clapping or speaking — while the robot performs the gesture at a safe distance inside a clear acrylic enclosure.

The project combines expressive movement, soft fabrication, sensor input and carefully choreographed control to create a provocative but non-contact encounter.

View the full project: https://hoomansamani.com/slapbot/

QUANTWIN

SOFT ROBOTICS · PERFORMANCE · DIGITAL TWIN

In QUANTWIN, artist and choreographer Silke Grabinger explores the idea of twins through an immersive digital double embodied as a soft robotic entity. Attached to the performer’s body, the robot becomes an interactive partner rather than a perfect mirror — a physical “other” that can move, respond and merge with the performance.

The work is presented in both performance and exhibition formats. Its robotics were developed by creative robotics london — Hooman Samani, Sania Akhond and Chandler Chang — in collaboration with the wider artistic and production team.

QUANTWIN brings soft robotics, wearable structures and expressive motion together to explore identity, embodiment and interaction.

View the full project: https://www.silk.at/actual-projects/quantwin-en

ROYAL ROBOT

CUSTOM ROBOT · CASE STUDY COMING SOON

Royal Robot will be added as the next featured project. Project photography and further details are currently being prepared.

More images and a full build story will be published here soon.

FROM CONCEPT TO PHYSICAL INTERACTION

These projects show how robotics can do more than automate a task. Through 3D-printed parts, custom mechanisms, sensors and carefully designed motion, a robot can become an artwork, a research tool, a performer or an entirely new kind of experience.

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