  Design usually relies on human ingenuity, but the past decade has seen the
field's toolbox expanding to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its adjacent
methods, making room for hybrid, algorithmic creations. This article aims to
substantiate the concept of interspecies collaboration - that of natural and
artificial intelligence - in the active co-creation of a visual identity,
describing a case study of the Regional Center of Excellence for Robotic
Technology (CRTA) which opened on 750 m2 in June 2021 within the University of
Zagreb. The visual identity of the Center comprises three separately devised
elements, each representative of the human-AI relationship and embedded in the
institution's logo. Firstly, the letter "C" (from the CRTA acronym) was created
using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) applied to (x, y) coordinates that the
neurosurgical robot RONNA, CRTA's flagship innovation, generated when
hand-guided by a human operator. The second shape of the letter "C" was created
by using the same (x, y) coordinates as inputs fed to a neural network whose
goal was to output letters in a novel, AI-generated typography. A basic
feedforward back-propagating neural network with two hidden layers was chosen
for the task. The final and third design element was a trajectory the robot
RONNA makes when performing a brain biopsy. As CRTA embodies a state-of-the-art
venue for robotics research, the 'interspecies' approach was used to accentuate
the importance of human-robot collaboration which is at the core of the newly
opened Center, illustrating the potential of reciprocal and amicable
relationship that humans could have with technology.
