Special Act
Robot Show
Robot entertainment for your event
The question is not “man or machine”, only teaming up with robots and artificial intelligence will lead to success in the digital future. And in the best-case scenario, it will even make us more human.
Find out more about my “Robotainment” and how it came about on this page.
A lot has happened in German companies since I started specializing my show in digitalization over 15 years ago. The initial backward step in international comparison has long since been made up for. Then came artificial intelligence as a major central topic.
The “next big thing” is the combination of robotics and AI. This is known as physical or spatial AI.
In the future, we will live and work with machines both privately and professionally as a matter of course. I deliberately chose a gripper arm as the robot for my show. Because intelligent machines are also tools and should look like tools.
Why I decided against a “humanoid robot”: Although the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, where I graduated in 2008, now offers a degree course in “Humanoid Robotics”, I remain skeptical about robots in this form. The best-known example at the moment is probably the Tesla bot “Optimus”. The aim can only be to integrate intelligent technology into our everyday lives as unobtrusively as possible. Do we really want robots that are like humans? For me, the best robot is one that performs clear tasks precisely and derives its shape from this task. A gripper arm is honest. It doesn’t promise to be human. So it’s not about the dream of an artificial colleague with a friendly face, but the sober beauty of a system that does what it is built for, so that we humans can do what we are made for.
Info: The robot show lasts approx. 8 minutes and can be supplemented with the regular program for up to 30 minutes. A surcharge will be levied due to higher costs. A little more space is also required on the stage. Transportation can only be provided by car and is therefore dependent on the tour schedule.
Development
From the trade fair to the trade audience
As I’m presenting my robot entertainment to a specialist audience, I didn’t take my inspiration from science fiction or the Tesla bot“Optimus”, but went to the Hannover Messe, one of the biggest exhibitions of robots for industry. The “Cobotta” from Denso Robotics seemed ideal for my robot show, because in addition to functionality, practicality also plays a major role at the events where I perform. I started learning how to program the robot and worked with specialists to build props for special effects that give the Cobotta magical properties.
The original inspiration to create magic with a robot in my show came during a trip on a cruise ship. There, two robots mixed cocktails fully automatically, which you could configure beforehand on a touch screen. This combination of technology and entertainment fascinated me so much that I came up with the idea of my own show with a robot. The same shipping company uses huge monitors in its theaters as a variable stage set, which are also whirled through the air by robots and thus become part of an impressive show. The movements are so perfectly choreographed that even such huge machines can have an aesthetic effect if they are staged correctly. As is so often the case, such ships are ahead of their time and a perfect source of inspiration for new forms of entertainment.
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