SciArt Magazine - All Issues February 2016 | Page 30

(above and right): flw by Ken Goldberg and Karl Bohringer. A 1/1 millionth scale model
of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, fabricated from silicon using ultra high precision
lithography. Installed at San Jose Museum of Art, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist.

Greek statuary; but instead of anthropomorphizing
heavenly deities, he presents us with a classical–looking
robot arm. This piece is a sculpture in plaster of Paris
of the PUMA—Programmable Universal Machine for
Assembly—which was developed in the 1970s and used
by General Motors. The work not only addresses the
pervasive his