roomoot

It is an installation, which expresses the warmth and fear of people coming in contact with each other using sound and light. A newly developed sensor is applied for the detection of touch.

Exhibited at:
Electrofringe 2010

It is a joint project with "MEME YAJI-SAN " that laps robots imitating organisms.
Scheduled to be exhibited in MTM06.

Fluffy mouse. The squeezing movement corresponds to the right click. You can also use the wheel that hides under the fur. The sense of touching a small animal is turned into an input interface.

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Exhibited at:
Make: Tokyo Meeting 05

Soft breadboard. Breadboard is a board that can conduct trial of circuits by plugging in electrical parts. Since this board made by silicon rubber can be bent and twisted, it can be applied for curved surface and things that deform.

Exhibited at:
Make: Tokyo Meeting 05

It's a teapot, teacups and milk cup set partially wrapped with fur that retains heat. The handle and the knob are like tender flesh.

Exhibited at:
Make: Tokyo Meeting 05

What happens when you “use” electrical products that become similar to living organisms through animal-like gestures? The electrical products that can actually be used will show their animal-like behavior as they grow a tail. In addition to the electrical pot, vacuum cleaner, table lamp, hanging lamps with tails are produced.

Exhibited at:
iii Exhibition 11

t is a challenge to pursue how people feel organic qualities from the contrast in the difference of figuration by interlocking the movement of a humanoid robot with soft flesh exterior and the movement of home electronics/furniture. The members of roomoot developed the small humanoid robot that holds total body sensation/flesh exterior during the enrollment at Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory of The University of Tokyo as a part of research.

Exhibited at:
Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition - Hybrid Ego

Soft engine using artificial muscle device for robots. It is covered with white fake fur. It moves with high-pressure air as energy source. You can feel the pulse like an animal organ or a bulge like a muscle under the fur when you touch it. A small bike that holds the bionic engine was produced as a prototype that links machine and organism.

Exhibited at:
Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition - Hybrid Ego、
iii Exhibition 9

It is a chair with an appearance like an organism, with firm, round and curvy looks. When you pull the lever that makes the seat go up and down, it transforms as it makes a breathing sound.

Exhibited at:
iii Exhibition 9