The Italian Comedies of the 16th and 17th centuries had many improvisational pieces called lazzi. These were comic interludes inserted by a player if a scene started to drag or his eloquence gave out. I Comici Roboti performs the Lazzo of the Statue, in which Arlecchino pretends to be a statue who moves when the backs of the other actors are turned.
Our troupe of three robots perform a short script, with each executing its own plan, cuing off the others to keep themselves in sync. A human director observing the performance can affect the overall performance, or the performance of an individual robot.
The robots themselves consist of Lego bases, carrying a HandyBoard processor, a two-way radio link, and the puppet body.
