Airy: Reading Robot Intent through Height and Sky

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08381v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:07:30 GMT
• Title: Airy: Reading Robot Intent through Height and Sky
• Authors: Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu,
• Abstract summary: Airy asks whether complex multi agent AI can become intuitively understandable.<n>Shows how sensory metaphors can turn a black box into a public interface.
• Score: 42.16631998429073
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As industrial robots move into shared human spaces, their opaque decision making threatens safety, trust, and public oversight. This artwork, Airy, asks whether complex multi agent AI can become intuitively understandable by staging a competition between two reinforcement trained robot arms that snap a bedsheet skyward. Building on three design principles, competition as a clear metric (who lifts higher), embodied familiarity (audiences recognize fabric snapping), and sensor to sense mapping (robot cooperation or rivalry shown through forest and weather projections), the installation gives viewers a visceral way to read machine intent. Observations from five international exhibitions indicate that audiences consistently read the robots' strategies, conflict, and cooperation in real time, with emotional reactions that mirror the system's internal state. The project shows how sensory metaphors can turn a black box into a public interface.

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