Wittle Tweenbots in New Yowk Awww
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Kacie Kinzer at NYU in the Tisch ITP part of the school conceived the idea of Tweenbots, little guys on a suicide mission.
Cardboard robots, armed with only their wheels for motion and their HELP ME flags labeled with their final destinations, were released and followed by Kinzer at different points. She was surprised how people helped the little dudes reach their goal points.
Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”– Kacie Kinzer
Other, smaller robots are under construction and will soon be making their way into the streets of New York City to continue how far strangers will go to help nameless robots with cute smiles.