Watch OK Go team with Universal Robots for 'Love' Music Video

I would say as far as the robots go, this is a pretty humane production

We're really looking out for them. Yeah, so far no robots have been, well, we don't know that

My name is Damian Kulash, I'm the singer in the rock band OK Go, and we are on the set of our video for Love

which we are filming in Budapest in a train station. We have 25 universal robots that are set up at different stages

in different scenes of the video. We needed robots for this because the mirror tricks we're trying to do

are so very delicate. The difference between 0.01 degrees of something will change the effect

So I reached out to my friend Aaron Duffy and said, do you know anybody who's really good with robots

Every project I've done before was like two robots, three robots, maybe even eight robots

But now we have created a choreography for almost 30 robots, which is crazy

There is like 100 meters from the beginning to the end, and everything has to be in sync together, together with the music, with no lag, no delay

It is one continuous shot, which means you have to program all these robots

to do exactly the things that they need to do at the exact time that the music says it's supposed to be

at the time that the band knows that things are going to be happening. OKGO videos go to the limit of what is possible

And in this video, I think it's a next level of complication. The key with making OKGO videos is all about play If we can just get something and start playing with it we can have the ideas

They are perfect for creativity because you take the robot, you put it somewhere, and we teach the robot how to move

This was actually insanely easy to just manipulate in a very humanistic way something that's so robotic

They are a little bit like characters within the piece. they have a dance to them and a flow to them

These robots and I are like... Yeah, I know, I know. In every stage of the music video

there are like five things that can go wrong. We've got 25 robots carrying glass and plastic mirrors

That would be incredibly dangerous if it weren't for these robots, which have safety built into them

If they touch something, they stop. So we really don't have to worry about getting hurt by them

which is amazing. I feel like I'm working with something that I can really interface with on a creative level

And so for that I have a huge thank you to the Universal Robotics team

The way they support creativity on this crazy project is something that we really appreciate

because if you put all the effort and all the team together, things can work

What I care about is the ability to express an emotion and to connect with other humans

And what's amazing here is that I think we're able to connect with humans in a new way because

of the robots. They're letting us do something that humans simply couldn't