"Can't Help Myself" – The Story of the Robot (In my perspective)

 

"Can't Help Myself" – The Story of the Robot

Creators & Timeline 

• Artists: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu (Chinese contemporary artists)

• Started: 2016, first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum

• Ended: 2019, final display at the Venice Biennale

What Did the Robot Actually Do?

• The robot had a mechanical arm programmed to clean up a thick red fluid that kept leaking onto the floor.

• Using sensors, it detected the spilled fluid and tried to push it back toward the center.

• However, the fluid kept spreading, making the task endless and futile.

Purpose Behind the Exhibition

💡 Symbol of Struggle – The robot was stuck in an endless cycle of work, much like human labor and daily struggles. 

💡 Control & Power – Some saw it as a metaphor for authoritarian control, where individuals constantly fight but never escape. 

💡 Emotional Connection – As time passed, the robot slowed down, looking exhausted and worn out, making people feel sorry for it. 

💡 Viral Fame – In 2021, videos of the robot went viral on TikTok and social media, touching millions of viewers.

How Did It End?

• By 2019, the robot’s movements had become slow and weak, as if it was tired.

• Eventually, it completely stopped, symbolizing defeat and exhaustion.

• Many viewers saw this as a heartbreaking representation of life's struggles.

This artwork makes people reflect on themes of labor, control, and human perseverance.

MY REVIEW 

         You are trying to connect with the humans, but you are not thinking like humans.

1_People take birth - then they do continues work to their entire life of journey and then - Die.

2_The thing is that, 

If you want to increase a healthy and positive span of life, then you must be do something great changes in your life, because of that you will also get purpose of your life.

     => Start pranayam it's a "Indian technique" that helps to Improve Breathing .

   => Have a positive approach and healthy diet that start from early morning breakfast then heavy but healthy lunch then lite dinner before sunset.

     => Now it's time for YOG🧘‍♂️ that Give Proper Digestion , It also cure disease (some people say stretching exercise means Yog).

     => Do some Upavas (fasting), it will enhance Brain Functioning, Heart Health, Disease Prevention, Longevity, Burns fat and boosts metabolism.

Interesting Fact :-Indians have been doing Upavas or Detoxification or Fasting from 3000 years ago, they know this Technique.

3_My point is that while humans find ways to heal every day, "robots also use various types of techniques to enhance their performance".

Means  

   * As a positive approach this experiment should get done with the help of different oils or lubricants or greasing fluid not with red fluid.

   * The robot's mechanical arm works with automation and sensors to clean the fluid, but importantly, "The arm needs to pour the fluid on itself,to start a self-care system "(Oil or greasing will provide less friction to the robot's arm).

For example: Various websites take users data to train their AI models. and after that these trained models give information in various format.

     * This self-learning and self-caring technique will increase the Robot's life span.