Self-balancing artwork exhibited to the public

Robotae has been working with the Brussels-based artist Antoine Espinasseau to create a series of self-balancing sculptures, working with the principle of using a reaction wheel to balance an inverted pendulum. These were exhibited to the public for the first time on 5-6 July 2025 as part of an exhibition entitled Que Rien Ne Bouge (Let Nothing Move) in the beautiful village of Faugères, South of France. The atmospheric location was the stunning Third Temple of Faugères, transformed in 1795 from a former guard room that resisted cannon fire in 1622. The carbon fibre frames ‘wear’ rice paper bearing screenprints of Rodin’s ‘Étude de robe de chambre pour Balzac’ to represent the material structure used for stability of conventional stone and bronze sculptures, in contrast to the active balancing.