Summary:

This first-of-its-kind half-day workshop explores secondary motion—the delayed, reactive, physics-driven movement that follows a robot’s primary action—as a new form of robot fashion and expressive design. Rather than dressing robots in anthropomorphic clothing, participants create kinetic contraptions that flutter, bounce, sway, rattle, shimmer, or oscillate in response to quadruped behaviors. Workshop outcomes will be presented in a Secondary Motion Robot Fashion Show during the main ICSR conference program. Register here to participate.

The motivation of workshop is to blend research and creativity to investigate:

• How secondary motion can communicate attitude, personality, or intent.

• How kinetic contraptions can serve as rapid prototypes for expressive behaviors.

• How design and artistic practices (fashion, theatre, sculpture) can enrich social robotics.

• How quadruped platforms can become expressive, non-human “performers.”

Objectives:

• Introduce secondary motion fashion as a framework for expressive robotics.

• Facilitate hands-on experimentation with attachment design.

• Generate new interdisciplinary methods for robot expressivity.

• Encourage collaboration between artists, roboticists, and industry.

• Prepare pieces for a later public runway-style demonstration.

Workshop Duration:

Half-day (4 hours)  - Secondary Motion Robot Fashion Show + Opening Ceremony Demo