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Boston Dynamics' Spot
Humour + Playful
What? Wearable for robot dog with approachable and playful design with a signal jammer.
Discourse we intend to provoke: These dogs or humanoid robots don’t share the same qualities you enjoy about your dog or humans, so think critically about what you’re actually being shown.
Critical Framing
- Privacy & Surveillance: By obstructing communications, we call attention to constant watching and monitoring in public spaces.
- Bodily Politics: Treating the robot dog like a dressed-up pet highlights how society normalizes control over bodies—animal, human, or machine.
Process Limitations:
- Access to a robot dog for testing. The open source models aren’t the ones to be afraid of.
Critical Object Limitations:
- The people who would acquire this aren’t the same people who are owners and within the circles of a robot dog. This would work as a performance, perhaps not as an object to be manufactured or even placed in a museum - unless it’s a museum that chooses to have one walking around or which creates an activity designed for visitors to put the collar on the dog.
Design hypotheses to test:
- Form factor: Collar vs Vest
A second version of this would be a disaster kit on how to euthanize a robot dog, including:
- Hammer
- Magnets as treats
- Map with spots where robot dogs have been sighted and/or problematic
Next steps:
- Choosing a relevant robot dog - seeing the most used ones for the questionable ends.
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