Åsa Unander-Scharin (PhD) choreographer and artistic researcher collaborating with dancers, musicians, programmers and robotic researchers. She holds a position as assistant professor at Luleå University of Technology and member of The Committee for Artistic Research at The Swedish Research Council. Her choreographic works have been presented at festivals, art galleries and conferences in Europe, Japan, Vietnam, Canada and USA. In 2008 her doctoral thesis Human Mechanics and Soulful Machines was published. Recent works are Artificial Body Voices for the Swedish television, Opera Mecatronica at the Swedish Royal Opera House and Rotterdam Opera Days and Robocygne at the opera house of Düsseldorf. asa.unander-scharin@telia.com