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kirsty boyle :: robotics artist

karakuri.info

chahakobi_and_aibo 2003 Produced http://www.karakuri.info, the first online English archive about the Karakuri tradition.

Awards and achievements have included:
2006 SCINEMA – the 6th International Festival of Science Film, Multimedia Finalist
2006 karakuri.info materials reproduced in robotics educational textbook about the history of robots and robots in space, produced by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) for distribution to every high school student in Germany (180,000 copies)
2005 karakuri.info images reproduced in “Mighty Robots: mechanical marvels that fascinate and frighten” by David Jones, published by Annick Press 2005 ISBN 1-55037-929-1
2004 karakuri.info materials requested by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for reference and distribution during the 2004 International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-15)
2004 karakuri.info ‘Website of the Week’ in Asia Policy Weekly, produced by the Japan Information Access Project and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. March 14 – 20 2004 Volume 8, No 11, p15. ISSN 1543-1185
2004 karakuri.info featured on NASA Robotics Education Project website
2003 karakuri.info featured in lecture 3 Embodied Intelligence, part of the AI Lectures from Tokyo online education initiative at the University of Tokyo, Japan