Practice for Non-Industrial Robot

AATB

AATB treat robotics like a raw material – flexible, unpredictable, almost tender. The duo, Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet, takes industrial robots far beyond the factory floor, turning robotic arms into performers, collaborators, and sometimes awkward companions. Their work blends engineering with choreography. Software becomes gesture, precise machine movements become playful, and the relationship between humans and machines turns into something staged and strangely intimate. By placing robots in everyday settings, AATB show how deeply automation already shapes our movements, and desires. Their work asks a simple but radical question: What happens when machines stop making things – and start creating experiences? They have exhibited at ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, the New Museum New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and during a residency at CERN.