Bat Primo & Maor Bluman // Eating Robots: Food Empathy Through A New Lens
May 20th, 2020
Assignment #2 // Collage Theme Question
Eating Robots
Humans eat animals; because of traditions, norms, education, and taste.
Humans eat animals; although it risks health, harms our planet, and considered inhumane.
Vegan advocacy that contains graphical images of abuse and suffering fails to promote change.
Robots are social, manufactured entities, that we don’t consider as food.


Does this project feel wrong? Cruel?
Do human feel empathy towards robots?
Can we change human attitude towards animals using robots as an analogy?
In the future, should robots be a valid food choice?
June 18th, 2020
Assignment #3 // Speculative Concept and service, Speculative Video
Food & Empathy: Eating Robots
In a world, not very different than ours, a new robot species, originally designed as a companion, was found to be edible. Humans took advantage of the discovery, introducing robots to their daily diets and naturally adopting this new dietary option to tradition, health, and indulgence. Eating Robots questions humans empathy and the perception of robots as social, intelligent entities and challenges our attitudes towards consuming other "living" species.
July 14th, 2020
Final Assignment // A Short Speculative HCI Paper
"Eating Robots": Food Empathy Through A New Lens