These three works, whose video extracts are shown here, interrogate the many layers of human – technology relationships. They encourage the viewer to rethink their notions about robots and artificial intelligence, to concentrate on their ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ instead of their utilitarian and scientific value. In these works, the robots are not malleable objects bowing to human orders. They are entities instilled with life, with individual modes of self-expression, driven by intricate artificial intelligent systems. Performance is a core component in all these works, and is used by the artist to distil the emotional currents of these interactions. As human lives become more and more enmeshed with technology, as the boundaries fade and the walls collapse, works like these may help us visualise our new realities.