Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
Takayuki Todo's “Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2025, category Artificial Life & Intelligence.
This is an installation work that displays an autonomous four- legged robot dog that is about to attack people, bound by a chain in a restricted state. The viewers face the "murderous gaze" of the robot while keeping a safe distance from the robot's attacks.
About Takayuki Todo
Takayuki Todo (JP) is a m edia artist. With the question in mind "How can we make a robot, a non-human object that resembles a human and exists in the same space with us, turn into a living human?", Todo has focused on the representation of "gaze" as a…
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