Birthing Bot

Pattinson made a series of robots from the discarded spindles of an old staircase. Based on Sophia – the humanoid robot created in Hong Kong by Hanson Robotics in 2016 – she ran a survey asking people what tasks they would program a personal robot to perform for them. What if a robot could give birth for you, or take your painful death in your place? Would that be progress, or terrifyingly weird and dangerous?

Wood, Automaton

Crafted by

Clare Pattinson