steve middleton
melbourne australia
The Walking Head installation at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Australia
walking head robot
The work implemented voice enabled (in this case singing) softbot agent technology developed by Steve Middleton at the Animation and Interactive Media centre in Melbourne Australia 2001 - 2006
walking head robot
The photographs were taken during a private demonstration of the work in October 2006.
walking head robot
The robot walked its podium vocalising a fifth sawtooth wave generated by a genetic alogorithm.
walking head robot
The artist is grateful to Lars Vaupel and Stelarc for their collaboration during deployment of the vocalising softbot agent technology on the robot.
walking head robot
walking head robot
walking head robot
walking head robot

credits

STELARC Walking Head Project 2005 6-legged walking machine, aluminium, stainless steel, acrylic, pneumatic actuators, rubber muscle actuators, electronics, LCD screen 2 metre diameter Courtesy of the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney Acknowledgements: Engineering and robot programming by Stefan Doepner,Lars Vaupel, Gwendolin Taube and Jan Cummerow of f18 in Hamburg. Virtual Head 3D model, animation and programming by Steve Middleton, Melbourne.