what human hands are capable of?
what human hands are not good at?
what machines can do better than humans?
what machines are not as good as humans?
Why assembling always need human rather than all machines?
I think my tubing bag is a perfect fit to this topic. Instead of weaving all the patterns by hand, I use machine(Arduino and water pumps) to generate fluid pattern.
Also this human 3D printer example is great as a hybrid work that uses human hands to replace xy plotter of a 3D printer. It is amazing to just realize how flexible and versatile can human hands be compared to machines.
AiR Presentation: Laura Devendorf
This Phillippe Starck's work is another sort of human-machine hybrid work. A collaboration on this level of ideation rather than making. A collaboration to design forms:
A.I. - INTRODUCING THE FIRST CHAIR CREATED WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Grafting/crossbreeding technique(a hybrid work between human and nature). Just caome into this man using hands to brush the pollins to the female flowers in order to get the DNA combination he wanted(have to say this is some sort of design!):
How This Guy Made the World's Hottest Peppers | Obsessed | WIRED
(similarly this remind of ranch goldfish, a biological 'artifact'/human programed live matter)