When she heard that Moore was each knowledgeable ballet dancer and an astrophysicist with a eager curiosity in robotics, she felt there was an ideal match. “We each thought this could be a tremendous alternative to discover these interactions and actions additional,” says the Norwegian designer who first loaned Merritt Moore the company’s personal UR5e robotic after which via a UR distributor helped her borrow the bigger UR10e robotic with extra attain.

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“I used to be hooked,” says Merritt. “On weekends, after rehearsals and in between reveals, I’d work with the robotic exploring motion.” Her work caught the curiosity of the brand new ArtLab at Harvard College in Boston that invited her to be one in every of their first artists-in-residence to discover this analysis additional.

“This was proper earlier than lockdown in Jan-Feb 2020. When the lockdown occurred, I did suppose ‘hmm fascinating that I used to be simply working with robots. Who knew {that a} robotic might be my solely potential dance associate for a really very long time?’ And right here we’re,” she says.