Nevermore-A-Matic tells stories about the end of the world to ravens using beak wipes on branches.

We have long looked to birds as omens of what the future holds and seen in them warnings of dark days. The birds likely have no awareness of the soothsaying abilities we afford them.

Using human language coded in machine language coded in beak wipes, a signal with significant salience to the birds, Nevermore-A-Matic attempts to tell apocalyptic stories drawn from mythologies, politics, and science to ravens.

The robot intends to warn them about what we are doing to the world and about how obsessed we are, paradoxically, with ways the world might end, both real and imagined.

The robot made its first appearance in the performance Marvelous Meat in 2016.