Robotic Relations – Highlight Delft Symposium

How will we live together with robots? At the Robotic Relations symposium, researchers, artists, makers, and audiences come together in conversation, to talk about…

…how robots become an extension of human creativity;
…if we consider robots as living beings;
…and what happens when we encounter robots in physical space. 

Traditionally, technology was seen as an object, a tool designed for efficiency and control. In today’s digital age, that view is shifting. Technology moves, listens, learns, and anticipates in ways that feel increasingly personal. Think of social robots, AI assistants, care systems, or interactive artworks: they take up space, challenge us, and influence how we behave.

During the Robotic Relations symposium, scientists, artists, and audiences will explore this shift by focusing not on the technology itself, but on our relationship to it.
Maaike Bleeker, Ulrike Quade and Marco Rozendaal are curators of the sessions held at the Robotic Relations symposium.

To attend the symposium, you need an additional ticket besides your Highlight entry. You can purchase this via the ticketshop.

Furthermore, from 11 to 14 February, underground Delft, a 1.2-ton robotic arm will be roaring to life. The Mad King, part of Bram Ellens’ series Robots in Captivity, blurs the line between machine and creature. The Mad King invites you to step closer, and to ask: when does a machine become alive?