Amorphic Robot Works has moved to a new 4000 sq ft facility in Red Hook, a former Norwegian Seaman's Church. Our new address is:
111 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231 -1610
The new phone number is:
718-403-9292

Directions without car: F or G-train to Smith & 9th, then bus #77 to Van Brunt.

posted by Frank at 7:52 AM

Amorphic Robot Works is pleased to announce the presentation of Too Big Dog Monkey with new little Dog Monkey at El Museo Del Barrio in New York, October 24th through February 16th 2003 as part of El Museo's Bienal-The (S) Files/The Selected Files.

Too Big Dog Monkey is a mobile hydraulically powered 7-jointed computer-controlled member of the ARW family of sculpturally hybridized dog-monkeys. Fully extended, TBDM stretches 30 feet long from knuckle to tail. Like all ARW Dog-Monkeys, Too Big can wag her tail, wave her forearms, and walk in a monkeylike gait by dragging forward on knuckles. At El Museo Del Barrio, Too Big performs with a new little Dog Monkey featuring articulated wrists for steering; the two DM's interact in a call and response pattern. Under computer control, Too Big takes on a new life with some surprisingly subtle expressiveness, and little DM is a raucous and excitable agitator.

posted by Amorphic at 7:22 AM

Amorphic Robot Works is proud to have presented Skeletal Reflection at the Digital Crossover Festival presented at the Muffathalle, Munich from October 24th to 26th 2002. "Skelly" displayed many enhancements including new axes of motion in the wrists and forearms, a new 16-actuator face, and a vision system to allow Skeletal Reflections to respond visually to a human participant. This servo-controlled sculpture is constructed of aluminum and plastic and is pneumatically driven. Skeletal Reflection resembles a humanoid skeletal form. A vision system allows a participant to pose and interact with the machine's behaviors. "Skelly" has 34 degrees of freedom including fully articulated hands, a fully articulated spine and the capacity of multiple facial expressions. Designed to reflect commonality with humankind, some of the expressions this humanoid machine will manifest are fear, anger, joy, sorrow, surprise and impatience.

"Skeletal Reflection" was featured in the "Humankind" Exhibition at Expo2000 in Hannover Germany, where it operated daily from 1 June 2000 to 31 October 2000. Up to 30,000 viewers per day encountered the machine's graceful movements and its reflection upon continuous change of our natural environment.

posted by Amorphic at 7:07 AM