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The Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab💥

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined January 2017
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Amy LaViers@alaviersJan 17
Snowy morning @The_RAD_Lab 👣
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Amy LaViers@alaviers2 Dec 2025
This Giving Tuesday, consider a gift to @The_RAD_Lab ✨ paypal.com/donate?hosted_but…
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Amy LaViers@alaviers7 Nov 2025
‼️ @The_RAD_Lab is opening a new, public-facing space here in Philadelphia. Read more about our vision for the space and consider a donation to help make this happen: docs.google.com/presentation…
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Amy LaViers@alaviers1 Nov 2025
Consider supporting @The_RAD_Lab in our “grand-opening” campaign: docs.google.com/presentation…
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1 “Grand Opening” Fundraising Campaign Grand Opening Fundraising Campaign Raising funds for a physical space

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really strong article by @sydneyskybetter about robotics and dance, with mentions of choreographer @onetruebonc, scholar @JessicaRajko, and "choreo-robotic" researchers @CatieCuan and @alaviers
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My @TEDTalks turned 3 this month! The artistic genre and academic field of #dancingwithrobots has richly expanded in that time. I've personally had an incredible breadth of collaborators throughout @StanfordEng @tw_arts @The_RAD_Lab ted.com/talks/catie_cuan_tea…
Teaching robots how to dance

Teaching robots how to dance

Robot choreographer Catie Cuan studies how dance can inform the design of robot movement. She tells how engineering nuanced communication is an important development in building the machines we...

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Amy LaViers@alaviers18 Mar 2021
newly published article, "a critical reflection on a practice as research project" (thanks Reviewer 2!), with @kateladenheim about her residency in the @The_RAD_Lab. here's a sneak peek: "Figure 4. Textures and composition of structural elements of `Babyface' installation." 😇
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Amy LaViers@alaviers2 Mar 2021
excited to virtually visit @rpi #empac + ECSE and ISE departments on wednesday -- and to give this talk: 🔨🖌️🤖✨. empac.rpi.edu/events/2021/ha…

Hammers, Paintbrushes, Robots, and Glitter—Embracing Duality in Movement Design and Creating New...

Which tools are more useful: hammers or paintbrushes? Robots or glitter? This talk will share a notion of duality between function and expression that challenges the traditional answers to these...

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It’s not too big of a stretch to consider roboticists as choreographers of a specialized sort, and that the integration of choreography and robotics could benefit both fields. wired.trib.al/VWj4MPN
How Choreography Can Help Robots Come Alive

How Choreography Can Help Robots Come Alive

Dance and robotics rarely overlap. But if they did, it could make robots seem less like industrial contrivances, and more like empathetic beings.

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MV Lab@movelab_uiuc3 Feb 2021
A fun teaser of the phenomenal #vr work @RobbiePsycho is doing for the mv lab! #laban #dance #practice
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Replying to @BostonDynamics
@BostonDynamics posted a robot dancing video...MEGATHREAD youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1k…
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Interested in Social Robotics? Take a look - Creativity and Robotics Workshop at ICSR 2020 with keynote speaker Professor Todd Lubart. Submission Deadline: Oct 16. creativity-robotics.github.i…
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Very glad to be a part of @Goldieblox #FastForwardGirls! Super inspiring to see dancer @nicolelaeno moving with @iRobot creates, with creative coding magic from #ishaanpakrasi. Thank you to @IfThenSheCan for bringing us all together and showing #SheCanSTEM
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Amy LaViers@alaviers7 Apr 2020
Our #HRI2020 virtual presentation is up on YouTube. @_peoplemovers did such a great job on this! youtube.com/watch?v=zS3ZI7FU…
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Amy LaViers@alaviers26 Feb 2020
“Babyface” by @_peoplemovers x @The_RAD_Lab with @footnotenzdance performing // Feb. 26 through March 1 on the Wellington Waterfront way down under down under in New Zealand // exploring the angelic femme spectacle with robots, breath, and the cyborg metaphor #babyfacePA2020
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This paper has been a JOURNEY and I am thrilled to see it in print. Many folks contributed both directly and indirectly (including #erinberl #ishaanpakrasi @codame @vxchang @sydneyskybetter @camscoggs and many more...). Thank you!
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New journal paper with @CatieCuan published, somewhat auspiciously, on Friday the 13th 😉: doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-00…
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Amy LaViers@alaviers1 Nov 2019
One of today’s Robotics@Illinois @CSL_Illinois speakers is @The_RAD_Lab’s own Allison Bushman 👏👏
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Performance and perception and writing and dance and robotics! It happened! And our journal paper is here to tell the tale ✨ thank you to @The_RAD_Lab @alaviers #ErinBerl #IshaanPakrasi and many many more
Amy LaViers (@alaviers) profile pictureAmy LaViers@alaviers28 Aug 2019
New journal paper with @The_RAD_Lab artist-in-residence (turned @StanfordEng graduate student ✨) @CatieCuan and research technician (and former @princetonarts student ✨) Erin Berl is out today. I love writing with these talented intellectual dancers. doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-00…
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Amy LaViers@alaviers13 Aug 2019
Yesterday was the best. So so proud of this brilliant, soon-to-be, Prof. @UmerHuzaifa 💫
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Join the RAD Lab tonight for a public showing of some work-in-progress from their artists! bit.ly/336XYUo
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