The Sad Life of TikTok’s Viral Dancing Robot
This masterpiece is making millions cry.
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4 min readJan 13, 2022
Another swing. Another sweep. Going on forever, to never fulfill the perpetual task it was programmed for.
This has been the reality of Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s robotic masterpiece “Can’t Help Myself.” Commissioned in 2016 for the Guggenheim museum in New York, the industrial robot arm had only one…
