Amy LaViers

Amy LaViers works at the intersection of robotics and dance. Her writing, choreography and machine designs have been presented internationally in both engineering and arts venues, including Nature, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, The MIT Press, Merce Cunningham’s studios, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater and the Performance Arcade. Her teaching has been recognized on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students with Outstanding distinction, and she is a recipient of DARPA’s Young Faculty Award and Director’s Fellowship. Her work has been featured in media outlets like The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, and Dance Magazine. She lives in Philadelphia where she directs the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab, a non-profit for artmaking, commercialization, education, outreach and research.