22nd July 2025
 (4pm – 6.30 half hour slots) and 23 July 2025 (3pm – 7.30 half hour slots)
Embrace Angels
 is a unique live experience where people and robots explore how to embrace together.
You are invited to walk a red carpet to where two robotic arms are waiting. As you and others move carefully towards one another, the robots respond in real time, playing and creating new embrace gestures through an AI system designed by the artists. Together, humans and machines generate a shared choreography of touch and trust.
A screen above shows how the AI interprets your movements and words (prompts) of onlookers, creating a dream-like loop of human-machine interaction, while meeting the unknown. You can take part in the embrace or simply watch as others merge in a strange and beautiful dance.
This is a gentle, thoughtful invitation to ask:
· What does it mean to embrace someone—or something such as a robot?
· Can robots care for us the way humans can?
· How will AI shape our embraces in the future?
· And what kind of memories can we make with AI by embracing each other?
This performance-installation is a poetic, provocative encounter between art and science, focussed on the social body. It explores what it means to trust, feel, and connect—beyond the predictable mechanics and limitations of “safe” touch. In the heart of the experience is a living sculpture of movement, consent, vulnerability and play, where humans and machines attempt to embrace—and be embraced.
No prior experience needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to be part of something different.
Created by award-winning artists 
Karen Lancel and Hermen Maa
t (
www.lancelmaat.nl
), pioneers in AI, robotics and human intimacy. Their work has been shown at the 
Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, ZKM Karlsruhe
, and more.
Important Notes:
· This is a live, interactive experience. Audience participation is invited but not required.
· Suitable for ages 12+ under 18s should be accompanied by an adult.
· Accessibility information: This is an accessible event
This work is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship: Somabotics: Creatively Embodying Artificial Intelligence [grant number EP/Z534808/1]
Information Source: Richard Ramchurn | eventbrite

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