The Flowers Fields is an installation composed of animated roboticised lamp-like creatures, akin to Luxo Jr. Pixar lamps, and made by INRIA FLOWERS team. It is a prototype exploring new forms of personal robots that might arrive in our everyday life. Instead of humanoid or animaloid robots, it might be everyday objects that shall become robots: lamps, televisions, chairs, tables, …

Flowers Fields is currently a purely entertaining and aesthetic object, allowing to study how humans react and interact with them. The lamps move with « biological » movements and sounds that vary depending on the sound and light surrounding conditions, as well as on their internal “mood”. In the silence and low light, flowers bend on themselves and are quasi immobile. In a lively and light atmosphere, they become animated, produce sounds, discuss and touch each other. When a visitor gets close, they collectively « look » in his direction and follow its gaze.

In the future, they might additionally become new tangible interfaces to the digital world, or used as a socially acceptable device interfacing with the technologies of digital healthcare for assistive robotics applications.