D4D Consortium Meeting

How will robots be designed and puppeteered? What kind of strings are attached?  

In June 2026 the Dramaturgy for Devices consortium met to review progress of the overall project. The central question remains how the performing arts can help develop human-robot interaction (HRI) so robots can be integrated better into society. 

At the meeting, we discussed the possibilities offered by improvisation-based robot interaction and the developing phenomenon of ‘robot-puppeteering.’ We also discussed how theater can inform speculation about robots and their future implications. We spoke about how these ideas can be ‘validated’ (testing assumptions and robot behaviours) and ‘activated’ (engaging diverse audiences including youth and digital illiterate).