At the intersection of robotics and dance, Amy LaViers moves fluidly between code and choreography — exploring how motion, emotion, and intention translate between human and machine.
As a researcher, educator, and artist, Amy’s work redefines what it means to move with technology. Her recent article, “Robots and Dance”, published in the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, maps the growing dialogue between embodied art and engineering.
In her new textbook, Making Meaning with Machines (MIT Press), Amy introduces the emerging field of choreobotics — a framework for understanding how movement creates meaning across humans, robots, and everything in between.
Through her work at the RAD Lab (the-rad-lab.org), Amy and her collaborators design systems that help machines sense emotion, gesture, and presence. She’s currently leading efforts to build AI infrastructure for the National Science Foundation, deepening our understanding of perception and human motion (read more).
Amy is also helping shape community at the IEEE ICRA 2025, bringing together roboticists, artists, and researchers exploring the creative side of automation.
And as she works toward opening a public space for the RAD Lab, Amy continues to build bridges between disciplines — inviting everyone to take part in this dance between the mechanical and the expressive.
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📖 Full vita: amylaviers.com/vita.pdf