🤖🎭 Project Pitch: Embodied Movement

🧩 Summary

"Embodied Movement" is a creative-technical initiative exploring how robotic quadrupeds (like the Unitree Go1) can move, interact, and coexist within urban cultural spaces — including black box theaters, galleries, and community centers.

It merges robotics testing with performance art and public engagement, using motion, presence, and autonomy as both research and expression.

🔍 Objectives

• Test autonomous and reactive movement in enclosed urban environments
• Develop motion scripts for live or ambient performance settings
• Engage community audiences with public demos and interactive scenes

🛠️ Technical Scope

• Platform: Unitree Go1 (Air or Pro)
• Software: ROS2, Python, Unity/Unreal, GPT-4o for optional dialogue
• Control: Voice, programmed motion paths, local navigation

🎯 Support Requested

• Loan or discounted access to Unitree Go1 robot
• Technical mentorship or co-hosted test space (community lab / studio)
• Support from cultural or tech sponsors to enable a demo phase

📅 Initial Timeline (4 Months)

1. Phase 1: Indoor terrain testing, gait tuning, surface mapping
2. Phase 2: Theatrical integration with timing and lighting cues
3. Phase 3: Interaction scripts with audience or actor participants
4. Phase 4: Public demo/workshop + documentation

📍 Why This Matters

This project brings robotics into the cultural fabric of urban life — helping communities explore non-human agency, intelligent motion, and future coexistence. It’s not just about engineering, but about empathy, storytelling, and embodied AI.