Can't Help Myself was a kinetic sculpture created by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu in 2016. [1] The sculpture consisted of a robotic arm that could move to sweep up red cellulose ether fluid …

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Collaborating with two robotics engineers, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu designed a series of thirty-two movements for machine to perform. Their names for these movements, such as “scratch an …

Feb 23, 2022 · In the video below, you can see the robot in action. This led to the robot slowing down enormously and eventually being unplugged in 2019. In the end, the robot couldn’t help …

Feb 17, 2025 · Can’t Help Myself, despite being a machine, is about the very essence of being human: what does it mean to be alive? What is the point of our own existence? What is the …

Mar 24, 2025 · Su Yan and Peng Yu exhibited a piece in Venice in 2016, “Can’t Help Myself,” that has sparked ongoing discussion. The mechanized hand brush in a glass box repeatedly …

“Can’t Help Myself” is a groundbreaking robotic art installation created in 2016 by Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, featuring a KUKA industrial robot arm that continuously sweeps red …

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s new work, Can’t Help Myself (2016), engages AI robotics and a visual sensor control system. In the exhibition space, we find a large robotic arm with a shovel atop a …

“Can’t Help Myself,” using a robotic arm out of its intended context, sheds light on that very tension. The robot’s relentless, futile task—containing hydraulic fluid spilling around …

They often use unconventional materials, such as live animals, human tissue, and of course, robots, to amplify the impact of their work. Can’t Help Myself was conceptualized as an …