Program
| Time | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome & Acknowledgement of Country | Intro to workshop aims and manifesto roundtable (participants present their animal-inspired robot character) |
| 9:30 | UR robot demo & Safety Induction | Overview of pre-programmed behaviours |
| 10:00 | Somatic warm-up + movement exploration: | “Becoming animal, becoming robot” |
| 10:30 | Morning tea | |
| 10:45 | Co-design session: define character behaviours and materials | Sketching animal-inspired personas via body and quick physical mock-ups |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 | Fabrication: crafting textile skins and reactive surfaces | Dressing and testing the robot’s new identity |
| 2:30 | Afternoon break | |
| 14:45 | Interaction vignettes: | Short performances of human–robot encounters. Videography of robot personas in motion |
| 16:00 | Final presentations, screening of videos, discussion |
Reflections and speculative futures of robot–animal–human entanglements |
| 17:00 onwards | Workshop Dinner (Optional) | Participants can gather for an informal dinner to continue networking (dependent on conference schedule) |