AfroBots Exhibition

AfroBots Exhibition

Starling 1.2 was exhibited on the show AfroBots at the Natural History Museum in Kigali in 2016 as part of a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum London and Rwandan National Museums, under the project AfriDesignX (this was one of a few collaborations between African Robots and AfriDesignX).

We were honoured to join a host of creative African robot projects:

The ‘AfroBots’ exhibition presented rarely seen robotic samples from across the African continent on display at the Natural History Museum-Kigali, including the AZIBOt, the Fundi-walker, a Bird Bot, a SpiderBot, and a DogBot. These digital specimens were generously provided by leading African academic departments of science, robotics and engineering as well as informal ‘maker spaces’ for amateur inventors, including Ashesi Computer Science-Ghana, Mint Innovations-Ghana, African Robots-South Africa, SenEcole-Senegal, Fundi Bots-Uganda, Kumasi Hive-Ghana, Jean Katambayi Mukendi Studio-Democratic Republic of Congo. Many of these prototypes incorporate animal characteristics, playing with the boundaries of the physical, the digital and the biological in the context of a Natural History Museum.

http://afridesignx.com/afrobots/