"Do you trust robots"", "Could a robot do your job"" and "Do you believe in the death and rebirth of things"" are among the deep questions being posed to visitors at the Vitra Design Museum's latest exhibition.
The Hello, Robot exhibition ? the first at the German design museum to focus on robotics ? explores the relationship between humans and the intelligent machines that increasingly feature in our lives.

Its 200-plus exhibits include Star Wars' R2D2, an automatic manifesto generator, a smart sofa and a robot-made pavilion.
The exhibits are framed by 14 questions that aim to make visitors think beyond the current conversation around robots, which exhibition curator Amelie Klein describes as "ambivalent".
"The exhibition looks at how we interact and relate to this new species, the robot," Klein told Dezeen at the opening of the show. "What we're doing here is a journey. On this journey the visitor finds 14 questions, and these questions are really meant to invite dialogue and the reflection on how we want to deal with this new technology ? as individuals but also as a society."
The questions, posed on overhead signs, guide visitors through the various rooms of the exhibition. The first room of the exhibition ? a "cabinet of curiosities" ? is filled with representations of robots from popular culture and asks "Have you ever met a robot"".

Exhibits in this room include S...