German designer and recent graduate of the Royal College of Art's Product Design program, Martin Postler, presents "Life/Machine - Scenes from a roboted Life." This project spurred from research that Postler gathered over 3 months in 2006 for a study at the Kyoto University of Arts. These scenes and made-up products and processes paint a picture of what life might be like if robots were to become an integral element in the automation of routines such as eating, hygiene, and leisure--essentially a commentary on certain ways we use technology today--"simplified and emphasized on production robot abilities like memorizing, targeting, order and in the end - robotic stupidity."
Postler's scenes illustrate universal life situations that make us feel uncomfortable and tense thanks to these unnatural-feeling human-robot interactions. For example, the automated shaving method mimics mass production processes of injection molding. The various elements in this project range from "a rather technical approach of problem solving (kitchen tools) to a more critical idea of how we are confronted with our own inventions and how we sometimes bend to accommodate technology."
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