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Soft Hand

summer 2021
The “robot” looks and feels uttely lifeless, yet when air is pumped into it’s hollow muscles, It comes to life as if being reanimated.












All 5 of it’s pneumatic muscles are connected to seperate airpumps that if pressurized in the correct order will make this silicon creature walk.





Manually “animating” this silicon creature takes multiple people to coördinate in a specific pattern thus creating the walking cycle of the critter and turning the users into puppeteering performers themselves.