A remote-controlled robot built to walk in the street with and playback music or recorded speech. It could also excrete beans as feces and liquid as urine.
Nam June Paik’s robot is named after a Mozart piano concerto and has the overall shape of a man, it is remote controlled and equipped with speakers allowing it to playback sound. It was built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe as a collaboration.
The robot was built to walk on the street and mingle with other pedestrians. In one performance Paik guided it through the streets of New York while K-456 played a recording of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address and excreted beans at the same time.
