[Text available only in English] NAO is a Japan-born ARTIST-INVANDOR based in France and active internationally. Using robots he designs himself, he creates performances in which sound, image, and bodily movement interact with each other. For NAO, robots are neither tools for talking about the future nor slaves made to serve humans. In developing them, he places at the center of his method yokai — a form of Japanese folk thought that gives names and forms to phenomena and relationships....