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An anatomist reads a robot remote
The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.
The workCities of Things, Wijkbot kit, design and prototyping workshop and street test, Stadslab Eindhoven and the NRE site, Monday 19 October, part of MAD's Common Ground. Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nlResearch cited
- Cities of Things Manifest 2026 introductie NL rf (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl
- Boekje ESC DEF versie web2 (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
Other sources
- Wijkbot (Hoodbot), website hoodbot.net
- Cities of Things, website citiesofthings.nl
- OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §11.5 Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limbs openstax.org
- Wijkbot (Hoodbot), make your own Wijkbot (in Dutch) hoodbot.net
- Cities of Things, the Wijkbot kit citiesofthings.nl
- GitHub, EFeru/hoverboard-firmware-hack-FOC (open-source hoverboard firmware) github.com
- Luma event page: Workshop Designing with immersive AI, speculative design meets civic prototyping luma.com
- Cities of Things, about citiesofthings.nl
- Cities of Things, manifesto citiesofthings.nl
- Cities of Things newsletter, archive citiesofthings.substack.com
- Cities of things (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
- Designing with immersive ai (citiesofthings.nl) citiesofthings.nl
- Maak kennis met wijkbot (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Over de inzamelbot (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Dutch design week (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Wijkbot bij dutch design week (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Wijkbot bij dutch design week 2 (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Wijkbotkit modulair (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
- Wijkbot op makerfaire eindhoven (hoodbot.net) hoodbot.net
Images, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- A white radio transmitter with two control sticks and red-tipped switches lies on a yellow bag over a green cutting matPhoto: RN Collins
- Slide 2
- A gray-haired man rides a plywood robot platform with a red seat down a brick street past a row of parked cars, while a woman in a long green coat walks beside himPhoto: RN Collins
- Slide 3
- Diagram of a right palm with the fingers up and the thumb on the right, the pad at the base of the thumb shaded orange and labeled thenar eminenceImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.5, Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper LimbsMuseum or journal record
- Slide 4
- Diagram of a right palm with the four thenar muscles labeled: abductor pollicis brevis and flexor pollicis brevis at the surface, opponens pollicis and adductor pollicis drawn dashed because they lie deeperImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.5, Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper LimbsMuseum or journal record
- Slide 5
- Diagram of a right palm with opponens pollicis highlighted at the base of the thumb, a curved arrow and a dashed outline showing the thumb moving across the palm toward the other fingersImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.5, Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper LimbsMuseum or journal record
- Slide 6
- Diagram of the back of a right forearm and hand with the thumb at the top, showing extensor pollicis brevis and extensor pollicis longus in the forearm and their tendons running to the thumbImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax, Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 11.5, Muscles of the Pectoral Girdle and Upper LimbsMuseum or journal record
- Slide 7
- A man in jeans holds a white twin-stick radio transmitter behind his back while two plywood robot platforms, one with a rider and one with heather, sit on the brick square aheadPhoto: RN Collins
- Ring frame
- Portable military radio set with open case (Museum Verbindingsdienst)Frame: Alf van Beem, CC0, croppedMuseum or journal record
- Quotes and video
- RN's phone photos and video behind this postRN's own footage, 19 Oct 2026, Stadslab Eindhoven and the NRE site, Eindhoven