# Stardust Yu Gong

Canonical URL: https://baoyangchen.com/works/stardust-yu-gong/
Interactive page: https://baoyangchen.com/#work/stardust-yu-gong
Year: 2025
Category: AI Agent-based Works
Medium: Humanoid robot, robotic arms, lighting system, projection environment

## Proposition
A suspended humanoid reaches toward orbital debris, and the gesture remains as inherited state.

## Description
Stardust Yu Gong places a humanoid robot above the floor, held by a large industrial arm as if drifting through an extravehicular repair. The robot does not face the audience. It faces a projected debris field.

The work stages maintenance rather than conquest. It does not claim to clear space. It builds a scene where risk, motion, resistance, and record are tied together.

When an intervention occurs, the gesture is not over. Motion, current, torque, controller state, and corridor updates are written back into persistent world-state. The next session begins with what the previous session left behind.

## Viewer Entry
The viewer encounters a body suspended in work. The humanoid is supported by another machine, and both face a field generated from orbital catalog data. The scene feels less like performance for an audience than a task that continues whether or not anyone is watching.

## Apparatus
Archived orbital data generates a live debris field. A rolling risk corridor ranks candidate hazards. When a trigger persists, the humanoid reaches while the carrier arm compensates its weight under admittance control. The system records the target, movement, current, torque, controller state, model version, and corridor change. Restart rehydrates these traces rather than returning the installation to zero.

## Sections
### Suspended Encounter
The industrial arm bears the humanoid's weight and remains visible as infrastructure. Agency is nested: one machine supports another so an intervention can occur inside the projected hazard field.

### Debris as Field
Orbital debris appears through archived catalogs, vectors, and risk models. The projection is not a cinematic backdrop; it is the form in which the hazard is ordinarily known.

### The Reach
A candidate hazard enters the corridor. The humanoid shifts from drift into a short reaching sequence. The carrier arm yields and compensates, making support and resistance visible.

### Write-Back
The decisive gesture happens after the reach. The system writes motion, effort, state, and risk updates into persistent memory, so the event becomes part of what later sessions inherit.

### Refusal of Reset
Stardust Yu Gong treats continuation as the work's central material. Responsibility appears as a structure that survives shutdown, restart, version change, and handoff.

## Images
1. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/stardust-yu-gong/01-5f709068-06-sml.jpg - The industrial arm suspends the humanoid in a controlled drift facing the projected debris field.
2. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/stardust-yu-gong/02-cc4f4251-10.gif - Archived orbital data becomes a live field of candidate hazards and moving risk.
3. https://baoyangchen.com/original-site-media/stardust-yu-gong/03-a08771a5-11.jpg - The humanoid reaches while the carrier arm compensates its weight and preserves suspension.

## Videos
1. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1153979621?h=c235c81ee1&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479

## Source Pages
- https://baoyangchen.com/Stardust-Yu-Gong