For Leonard van Munster I made the technology to make two life-size ‘limberjacks‘ hop in sync with music for Almere’s Alluminous light festival The technology consists of two motor mechanisms with a cam-shaft, controlled with a MIDI track (same technology
For the movie ‘De Bellinga’s – Vakantie op Stelten’ I have been designing and puppeteering robot ‘Luca’ on set. Luca is a 7th family member, looking after their home while the family is on holiday. On set, the robot interacts
Sonnevanck theatre is developing a play in which robot Ravi is one of the stars. Ravi is going to be controlled by a challenging mix of live control input, pre-recorded sequences and autonomous behaviour. More information on Sonnevanck’s website. The
A very intensive but also satisfying collaboration (again) with Remie Bakker (Manimalworks) finished last summer, this time for Sevdaliza’s incarnation ‘Raving Dahlia’. She appears for the first time in the videoclip ‘homunculus – oh my god’ (around the 4.00 minute
In the 4th episode of ‘Anna’s Brains’ the goal was to build a robot copy of Daan Boom, a.k.a. ‘the Dean‘ (so, effectively, the ‘robo-dean’). The robot is partially remote-controlled, partially MIDI (q-lab) driven. The head on the screen is
lucy is one of my robot ‘actors’ commissioned for the play ‘Nooit Meer Werken‘ by Nieuw Utrechts Toneel (NUT). The robot has been designed based on a frame imported by Aalt Rens (arexx) and used for the show by Thierry
In a number of creative theatrical vehicles and animatrons by exoot (Tristan Kruithof) I have been responsible for the control, electronics and software. His vehicles are usually based on converted electric golf-carts or wheelchairs. Part of the control consists of
Astrobot has been showcased at RobotLove (2018) as an experiment about the believability of social robots. Astrobot is a 3D printed inMoov model robot, built as MSc thesis project by Stanislavs Semjonovs. It uses a camera for face detection and
Annelies is a crying humanoid robot, built as a ‘spare sister’ for L.A. Raeven. Her first public appearance was during the RobotLove exhibition in Eindhoven, 2018 as part of the Dutch Design Week. I was responsible for the electronics, software,