Daniel Paluska is an American artist and

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known for his

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installations and collaborations. Paluska is originally from

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

,. He received both his BS and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from

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where he worked on perfecting the movement of robotic legs. His work on walking robotics was featured in a cover article of

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in September, 2000. Paluska is currently the VP of robotics at Pickle Robot, a startup he co-founded in 2018. With

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, Paluska created the Absolut Quartet, an interactive music-making machine commissioned by

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. He also collaborated with Amorphic Robotics in 2006 to create the ToteMobile, a transformational sculpture inspired and commissioned by Citroen. Paluska is the proprietor of Brooklyn Mobile, a mobile internet

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booth.

External links

Absolut Machines Demo Video

Absolut Machines Homepage
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the original

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American artists Artists from Michigan American roboticists MIT School of Engineering alumni {{US-artist-stub