Mechanical Humans
Short Film, Robotics, Critical Art
Mechanical Humans is a critical art piece that shows, through robot physical intimacy, how humans are imitating robots, becoming ever more mechanical and less emotional.
Philosopher Donna Haraway wrote A Cyborg Manifesto, where she explores the human obsession with assigning dichotomies to polar opposites: black and white, wrong and right, human and robot. She explained that there might be something in between, in our case, a cyborg.
What sets us apart from robots? What is it to love as a human? Are you becoming more mechanical?
Mechanical Humans won the Grand Prize at the ArtTech Hack 2026 at ETH Zürich.
- Year
- 2026
- Type
- Hackathon project
- Context
- ETH Zürich, ArtTech Hack 2026, Robotics Challenge
- Location
- Zürich, CH
- Medium
- Short film with robot dogs
- In collaboration with
- Aida Radoniqi, Sam Rahnemayan
- Robot dogs provided by
- ZHAW
- Categories
- Storytelling
