Loco Machines was entrusted in 2024 with the technological revitalization of Surveillance Cameras: they are alive!!, an interactive robotic installation originally conceived by artist Ricardo Iglesias in 2010, in collaboration with Hangar.

The installation features a set of autonomous robots equipped with surveillance cameras that track and record visitors, projecting the footage both in the exhibition space and online. Through this setup, the work reflects on the omnipresence of surveillance and the subtle yet constant mechanisms of social control.

Loco Machines modernized the original piece by integrating current technologies such as embedded computers, modern cameras, distance sensors, and line sensors. We also implemented computer vision to allow each robot to detect people, follow them within a fixed range, and finally greet them with a friendly head movement, performed by the camera itself.

This upgrade ensures that the work remains as thought-provoking and critically relevant today as it was at its inception, maintaining its powerful commentary on privacy, control, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines.