Des robots et des mains

Des robots et des mains
Date: 5.6.25
Institution: Compagnons du Devoir
Paris, FR

Moderator: Grégoire Talon (Conservatoire des gestes et savoir-faire / Re-Source, Campus Momade)
Guests:
Caroline Magre (Manufacture Pinton)
Alina Glushkova (Centre de Robotique, Mines Paris – PSL)
Julien Lecarme (Les Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France)
AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet)
Series: New Perspectives on Crafts

Des robots et des mains (Robots and Hands) was a session of New Perspectives on Crafts, a talk series moderated by Grégoire Talon, held at the Compagnons du Devoir in Paris.

It started from Jacques Vaucanson, whose 18th-century attempt to automate the silk looms of Lyon was met with stones by the weavers, yet led to the Jacquard loom, today a tool of the métiers d’art. The question: are yesterday’s robots tomorrow’s tools for craftspeople?

AATB spoke about its non-industrial practice with robots, alongside Manufacture Pinton, which makes its carpets with a tufting robot, the Centre de Robotique at Mines Paris – PSL, which captures craft gestures for robotics, and the Compagnons du Devoir.