Frankie, The Documentarian Robot

Frankie is an interactive installation: a robot that interviews people and documents them, attempting to learn what it means to be human. A curious, funny and persistent robot, Frankie has the cuteness of Wall-E and the edginess of Johnny 5. The project explores how free we really are in a world dominated by templates and algorithms, in which every second is documented and mediated. A sort of reverse Turing Test, It asks whether machines are becoming more human-like, or are humans becoming more machine-like. The one-on-one interviews are uploaded online, forming an archive of Frankie’s research.