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The Robot Group was founded in the Spring of 1989 by a small group of Austin, TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art. Through the synergy of fusing art and technology, The Robot Group has stimulated the public into a playful interest in high technology, and art now has new vehicles for effecting culture. The Robot Group has attracted a diverse audience of young and old, tech and non-tech alike. Each with the curiosity to see the artful gracefulness with which man and machine can create new worlds. The Robot Group has attracted national and international, recognition. The Group's activities have inspired articles in Newsweek, Mondo 2000 , boing-boing, FringeWare Review as well as appearances on ABC's Good Morning America and an episode of Invention on the Discovery Channel. Other TV appearances include the debut episode of Art Brigade, and the German program Kulture Report.
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Some recent Events of Interest:
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Eureka! Science show in San Marcos
Feb 24th, 2007
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The Robot Group was invited to participate at the Eureka! Artists Interpret the Laws of Science show in San Marcos. A gallery of pictures from the event can be seen here. |
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First Night Austin
Dec 31st, 2006
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This is the second time The Robot Group has participated in First Night Austin, a city-wide celebration on New Years eve. We were setup on the North side of the City Hall building where we had the official debut of the RoboSpinArt machines. A gallery of pictures from the event can be seen here.
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The Heritage Banquet
Dec 20, 2006
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The Robot Group was hired to provide the entertainment for The Heritage at Gaines Ranch. We were the featured for the Theme Banquet entitled "The Future!". We brought out LOTS of robots and robotic devices! We had a great time talking to thefolks and showing them our unique creations.
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Dorkbot
Nov 6, 2006
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The Robot Group was out in full geek-force to attend Dorkbot in November. We have pictures here and here! This event was extra special as we were able to show the progress of the RoboSpinArt machine. The machine had just been a concept and a buch of scribbles at a previous meeting and now it was ready to sling paint. We had LOTS of bots out and lots of Robofolk showed up to help and join in the fun.
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Austin Childrens Museum
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The Robot Group was invited to the Austin Childrens Museum to provide educational entertainment for visitors. We brought along the Babbling Head, Eggbot, the Thereping units and other assorted bots. THe kids enjoyed playing the therepings and the Babbling Head's Sea Shanties, as always were a big hit. Ricks Eggbot was busy drawing intricate shapes on eggs using CAD and stepper motors. Fun and fascinating stuff for kids and adults. We even got a Certificate of Appreciation!
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Eeyores Birthday Party
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The Robot group participates every year in Eeyores Birthday Party. It is one of our primary fundraising activities. This year (as we did last year) we made and sold funnel cakes using the funnel cake machine custome machined by the Robot Group.
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SXSW Frontier Fusion
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The Robot Group was invited to perform at South by Southwest Music festival for the EFFAustin and Creative Commons. With the Black Knight and Eyebot dancing to the folks playing the therepings, we put on quite a show! :) The folks from Geek Entertainment TV were there and they documented the event on video.
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The creation of the Thereping
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For First Night Austin 2005, The Robot Group was commisioned to create The Robot Theremin Band. In response the "Thereping" was created to allow non-musicians to play music. Each Thereping instrument contains a small computer that makes sure that the performer cannot play a wrong note or play a note at the wrong time. A complete article documenting the creation of the instrument was published in Nuts and Volts magazine in April 2005.
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