The robot next door
Photo credit: Nicolas Bigot
When you think of humans and robots commingling, it’s usually from a more apocalyptic or dystopian view, but rarely do we consider the possibility of both existing harmoniously in the humdrum of everyday life. Digital photographer Nicolas Bigot from Brittany, France wants to show us what the latter would look like in his “The Robot Next Door Project” series.
To create these illusions, the models are first captured in the appropriate poses and scenery. Next, he physically builds the mechanical element of the photo using scrap metal or whatever he can find. These parts are photographed separately in the same lighting and position as he did the models. Lastly, all of these are combined using digital software to create the photos you see here.
- 🎁 Ideal Gift for Kids & Teens: This STEM solar robot kit celebrates child’s growing skills and important milestones. Whether for birthdays,...
- 📚 STEM Educational Toy: This solar educational toy brings science to life! The fun DIY building experience sparks children's curiosit
Pinging the Robot Next Door
To understand our “Second Machine Age,” as Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee call it, one must look at the First Machine Age, the Industrial Revolution. It started with the steam engine in the 18th century. The increased productivity that this innovation and others generated brought economic growth never seen before in the history of mankind. The Industrial Revolution continued with two new innovations at the end of the 19th century: electricity and the internal combustion engine. The resulting machines replaced muscle power and greatly increased production and incomes, including for the poor.
Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s latest book, TheSecond Machine Age, endeavors to achieve three tasks: define the Second Machine Age and the opportunities it creates, investigate the disruptions and problems it will cause, and explore ways to keep the benefits while minimizing the costs.
What can machines do? / In the Second Machine Age, machines will not replace or multiply muscle dominance, but brainpower. For many, this was heralded in 1997 when Deep Blue, an IBM pc, beat Gary Kasparov, the earth chess
Submission
Dodho Magazine accepts submissions from emerging and professional photographers from around the world.
Their projects can be published among the best photographers and be viewed by the best professionals in the industry and thousands of photography enthusiasts. Dodho magazine reserves the right to accept or reject any submitted project. Due to the large number of presentations received daily and the need to treat them with the greatest respect and the time necessary for a correct interpretation our average response time is around 5/10 business days in the case of being accepted.
- Between 10/30 images of your best images, in case your project contains a greater number of images which are part of the same indivisible body of work will also be accepted. You must send the images in jpg format to 1200px and 72dpi and quality 9. (No borders or watermarks)
- A short biography along with your photograph. (It must be written in the third person)
- Title and full text of the project with a minimum length of 300 words. (Texts with lesser number of words will not be accepted)
This is the information you need to start preparing your project for its presentation
To send it,
French Photographer Nicolas Bigot creatively captured his new series “The Robot Next Door”. Niko is passionate about Science-fiction films and characters and he wants to show human and artificial intelligence, transhumanism and robotics. This series is a combination of all his passions, like photography to post-processing.
In his words about this series “We live in a world of appearances. In real life and the digital world. We play roles, characters. But appearances are often false or deceptive.”
You can find Nicolas Bigot on the web:
Via: Fubiz
Photo Credits: Photographs by Nicolas Bigot and used with permission.
KEEP UP WITH OUR DAILY AND WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS
READERS SHOPyour own online design shop — no sales commission collected
ARTNEWS
Aug 11, 2025in yuri suzuki’s UTOOTO, viewers build the sonic interactive installation using modular hornsthe sonic architecture is on view at the camden arts projects in london between august 7th and october 5th, 2025.
art
botanical sculptures by mona sugata grow from untreated cotton fabric and slow gestures
'I imagine my installations as relics quietly resting in an ancient monastery, holding a sacred presence,' sugata tells designboom.
art
Jul 29, 2025reuben wu draws aerial geometries with drones and lasers across remote landscapesthe images are captured entirely on-site, in single exposures, using drones and lasers to inscribe fleeting geometries into the environment.
art
Jun 19, 2025VCUarts qatar's matter diplopia evolves memories at london design biennale 2025in an exclusive video interview with designboom, VCUarts qatar talks us through the projects developed by research teams of faculty, students, and alumni.
art