The ‘Senster’, one of the world’s first robotic sculptures to be controlled by a digital computer, has gone on display at Warsaw’s Zachęta art gallery.

A portmanteau of ‘sensual’ and ‘monster’, the robot was created in the late 1960s by the cybernetic art sculptor Edward Ihnatowicz. It was lost and then rediscovered and lovingly restored at Kraków’s AGH University of Science and Technology.

In the show, host John Beauchamp talks to research fellow at AGH Dr Anna Olszewska about the Senster. Also check out our bonus episode in your feed for an uncut conversation with the inventor’s son Richard Ihnatowicz.

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