Automatons: Jason Nuttle

Fun story from Yale senior senior Jason Nuttle on his path to engineering and art. Nuttle combines servos, motors and gears to give life to art. Via Yale University on YouTube

Yale College senior Jason Nuttle combines skills in engineering with an artistic flair to create ingenious contraptions; specifically, he designs mechanical devices known as automatons, which perform a sequence of predetermined actions independently. In this video, Nuttle shares a few of his creations, including a computer keyboard that types on its own, a songbird trapped in a cycle of dying, and a robotic arm that performs random (occasionally unexpected) gestures.

His artwork was recently exhibited at Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), where he was a studio fellow last year.

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