Dancing robot: Choreorobotics takes center stage at San Francisco's Exploratorium. We’ve seen robots serving food, assisting in surgeries and driving on our streets. Now, robots are taking center stage as our dance partners.

“Choreorobotics is a portmanteau of the terms choreography and robotics,” Catie Cuan explains. “This burgeoning field looks at the intersection of dance, robotics and A.I., and mines our understanding of how bodies and embodied entities move through three dimensional spaces.”

In conversation with Sydney Skybetter, choreographer and engineer Catie Cuan shares the ideas behind her eight-Hour duet with an industrial robot arm.

The dancer and engineer Catie Cuan, an innovator in the emerging field of choreorobotics, performs an eight-hour duet with a robotic arm in Breathless: Catie and the Robot.

Catie Cuan develops part of Breathless during her Dancerly Intelligences residency at Jacob's Pillow.