soft robotic experiments
The following research has been led as a part of Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship for emerging artists between in 2023.
It was presented in February 2024 at the Academy of Performing Arts Berlin.
Prior research on this topic has been led as part of the [LINK] mentorship in artistic practice in 2023.
A documentation on this part can be found ︎ here.
For work in progress documentation see below documentation of the final presentation.
What do you connect with ‘Energy’? Which associations? Imaginations? Histories, stories? How do you feel ‘Energy’? In which parts of your body? In which places in the world? Doing which activity?
During the yearlong research process I developed a prototype for a soft robotic Latex wearable that is connected to an Electromyography Sensor. The sensor measures the electric activity in your muscles that are being sent while flexing them. The harder you flex, the more the electric membrane air pump is activated to inflate the Latex wearable. This is hardening the Latex, making it a solid exosceleton. Bending your arm will need more and more force.
