Goethe Institut Boston 

Tracings

seven-channel video projection, lengths 5-15 min., 2020

Individual titles:
Team Applied Robotics Pick
MRSD Final Video Team HARP
Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 Team MIT-Princeton Picking Task
Amazon Picking Challenge Stow task, Team IITK-TCS
Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 Team MIT-Princeton Combined Task
Amazon Picking Challenge 2016 PFN pick task
Amazon Picking Challenge 2016 Team Delft

The videos are based on found footage from the Amazon Robotics Challenge, a competition between different teams that develop robots for potential warehouse use. These robots which can execute simple picking and stowing tasks will eventually replace human warehouse workers. The drawings were created by tracking the movement of the tip of the robotic arms and subsequently connecting the tracking points. The starting point for this series were visits to Amazon Fulfilment Centers which are both fascinating and unsettling by their meticulous space-time optimization.