A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics

Year: 2026
Institution: Triest Verlag
Zurich, CH

Publisher: Triest Verlag
Design: Studio Adeline Mollard
Research team: AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet), Alain Bellet, Martin Hertig
Research project: A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne
Printing: KOPA

third-hand.xyz
ECAL research project

A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics is the printed guide of the ECAL research project of the same name (2022–2023), on how designers and artists can work with collaborative robot arms. It gathers the project’s experiments, tools and conversations: live tracking, ice milling, light painting, gripping, spray painting and the Production Line workshop.

The research project was conducted at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland, by AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet), Alain Bellet and Martin Hertig, with guest contributors including Jussi Ängeslevä, Mar Canet Sola and Varvara Guljajeva. The book is designed by Studio Adeline Mollard and published by Triest Verlag. Its companion, the open-access website third-hand.xyz, holds the tools and code.