Roboticitst & Artist Raffaello D’Andrea Speaks | UC Berkeley

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Artist and Roboticist Raffaello D’Andrea will use his own projects, such as the robotic self-destructing and self-healing chair, to discuss an alternative model where innovation can be detached from utility.

Pure Engineering: Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism

The human need to create is elemental. Whether this is an inevitable, evolutionary consequence of being the descendants of tool-making ancestors, or the cultural means by which we serve memes much bigger than ourselves, we are compelled to create. In the context of technical innovation, however, there is a growing consensus that this drive to create has become increasingly co-opted by materialism and consumerism.

This lecture is presented in Banatao Aditorium inside UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Dai Hall. For directions click here.

About the Artist: Raffaello D’Andrea

An artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Robot Soccer Team, four-time world champions at the international RoboCup competition in Sweden, Australia, Italy, and Japan.

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