Have you ever wanted to record your dreams? Or have a cool little humanoid robot? Then the Sleep Waking robot by Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns is for you. Amazing to watch, I love the precise yet elegant movement, which is remenisant of a mime artist, or contemporary dancer, and the little bench it has to sit on adds a nice human quality. Currently it doesn’t play back accurate representations of  dreams but it still has a dreamlike quality to the movement, not something you expect from a robot. Be sure to watch the video below.

‘Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positioning, “Sleep Waking” acts as a way to “play-back” dreams. Through this piece we hope to investigate one of the possible human-robot relationships.’

The robots head is controlled by eye movements, so if you look left it’ll look left, other actions are pre-defined and linked to specific brainwaves. One day the creators hope the dream playback will be accurate and we’ll be able to record and collect our dreams like we collect photos and videos today. I’m not quite sure what it’ll make of my dreams!