Born in 1976, Manabe co-founded the hacker’s space ‘4nchor5 la6’ (anchor’s lab) in 2008 and has won the Silver Lion in the Cyber Lions category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as well as being chosen by Apple alongside 11 others to provide work for a special website to celebrate 30 years of the Mac. ‘Dance with Drones’ (below) is a collaborative project to show how people can interact with technology such as robot arms and drones using tracking technology. Coincidentally, he also directed the video for Squarepusher x Z Machines that featured in another WeLove Digital post on robot music.