From the robotic mini band of the Japanese Tetsuji Katsuda to the Zen gardens in the tech version of the Italian Alessandro Giacomel, up to the pet robot parrots: it is the technology declined in a creative way and soul of the Maker Faire Rome, the reference event for technological creatives in I arrive from all over the world which opened today at the Ostiense Gazometro and scheduled until October 9th.
"It's pure fun", explains Katsuda, a robotic artist who at his stand presents some of his latest funny creations including five small humanoid robots that compose a real musical band and a robot that 'reads' the future of those who interact with him, communicating with ideograms painted at the moment for the interlocutor.
The Japanese artist perfectly represents the spirit that for 10 years has animated the Rome Maker Faire organized by the Rome Chamber of Commerce and which has always collected technological creatives arriving from all over the world.
Like the companion robot on the shoulder of a Californian visitor, a sort of tech version of the iconic pirate parrots, or the small Zen gardens created by the Italian Giacomel, in which a sphere moves along more or less random and hypnotic paths to draw landscapes inspired by Zen gardens.
And like every year, one of the artist makers could not miss by now among the symbols of the event: the German Kolya Kugler with his metal-rock robots built from scrap metal and spare parts of old cars.