How old theater techniques can inspire robot interaction design

Charlie Caper
Chief Creative Officer

In Italy around 500 years ago, there was a common style of theater called Commedia dell’Arte. It was a physical, very melodramatic style, often half scripted / half improvised with archetypal characters wearing masks.

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