Client
Google X
What we delivered
Audio design
Creative team
Google X
Peter Van Straten
The Everyday Robots team was working to create a general-purpose learning robot that could operate autonomously in unstructured environments. Our mission was to build a new type of learning robot — one that can eventually learn to help everyone, every day.
Designing sounds and composing music for this amazing project: the challenge was creating musical samples for each of the 8 robot's joints. Each joint is mapped to a different sound and even when multiple robots move multiple joints it has to make sense to your ears. In fact something musical might emerge!
This project was inspired by a set of questions around the relationship between dance and music: so often, music is played and robots dance to it, but what if the robot itself could become the musical instrument? What if the movement could dictate the music, rather than the other way around? It is an artistic human-robot-interaction experiment and is the first of several novel artistic projects we’re experimenting with on our robots.
This project was inspired by a set of questions around the relationship between dance and music: so often, music is played and robots dance to it, but what if the robot itself could become the musical instrument? What if the movement could dictate the music, rather than the other way around? It is an artistic human-robot-interaction experiment and is the first of several novel artistic projects we’re experimenting with on our robots.
Original project by Catie Cuan, Kyle Jeffrey, Kim Kleiven, Adrian Li, Emre Fisher, Matt Harrison, Benji Holson, Allison Okamura, Matt Bennice.
Music and Interactive audio design by: Peter Van Straten in collaboration with Tom Engbersen.
Original project supported by Everyday Robots and Stanford University.
SRC project supported by Hello Robot and the Stanford Robotics Lab.
