Amy LaViers

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Amy LaViers is a certified movement analyst, via the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, and director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the co-editor, with Magnus Egerstedt, of Controls and Art: Inquiries at the Intersection of the Subjective and the Objective (2014).

Written by Amy LaViers

Photo of a wooden artist mannequin lying on its back with limbs bent against a black background.

What falling robots reveal about the absurdity of human trust

A ‘trust fall’ prompts an absurd state of simultaneous vulnerability and safety – a paradox that robots can’t compute

by Amy LaViers & Ilya Vidrin