An exciting project, 5 robots for the play Heddatron, showed May 18 – June 9, 2012 at the Stray Cat Theatre in Tempe, AZ.

We designed and build these custom robot characters: [from left to right] Julie, Berta, Hans, Brack, and Billy. They drove around the stage, lit up to talk, and shook with excitement as their human operators executed complex choreography with them.

They were all custom designed and built in a month, making it through 14 performances without a malfunction.

Feel free to contact me with any inquiries about the design process, or if you want a set of robots of your own.

See what the press has been saying about this performance:

(sorry the links are dead now, but I took a picture of one of the newspaper articles at the time, which you can see below)

Arizona Republic: “5/18 – 6/9: Stray Cat’s ‘Heddatron’ star kidnapped by robots” by Kerry Lengel, 5/12/2012

New Times: “Best Performance by a Robot in a Supporting Role” 9/27/12

New Times: “Stray Cat Theatre’s Heddatron — I, for one, welcome our new  mecha overlords” by Julie Peterson, 5/31/2012

Arizona Republic: “To 6/9: Stray Cat Theatre’s ‘Heddatron’ is a bewildering ride” by Kerry Lengel, 5/22/2012