Oct 15, 2025
Amygdala Robot by Marco Donnarumma, Ana Rajcevic and Neurorobotics Research Lab Berlin Amygdala is an artificially intelligent robot in the form of an uncanny human-like limb hung inside an industrial-grade computer server cabinet. Disturbing and yet sensual, abject and sinuous, Amygdala uses a knife to manipulate and sculpt a large piece of skin. Its labour is repetitive, careful and neverending. The robot’s only aim is, in fact, to learn a ritual of purification known as “skin-cutting”. x
