A collaboration between Quantum Theatre and The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, "Cymbeline" will begin performances Thursday in the Rose Garden of Mellon Park. Using 21st-century technology and an outdoor setting are not just gimmicks to get attention, says Quantum Theatre's artistic director Karla Boos. "It maximizes how to facilitate what I want to experiment with and serves the exploration of the play," she says. Don't come expecting to see R2-D2 or Robbie the Robot substituting for actors. "This is something far different from a walking, talking android," says Illah Nourbaksh, an associate professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University who has been working with Boos and her design team on the production. Instead, Boos hints, the production will employ elements of robotic technology in more symbolic ways that may surprise and involve the audience.