ROS Film Festival’s team visited Sitges Festival last week, which hosted the presentation of ROS Film Festival, in an edition, number 49, dedicated to honouring the universe of Star Trek. We loved Fabricated by the American Brett Foxwell, and Stems by the British Ainslie Henderson, Une tête disparait by Franck Dion was really moving, just like Beast by the Belgian Pieter Coudyzer and we had a good laugh [...]
Robotics and artificial intelligence have always walked hand in hand in science fiction. Besides being part of history, they serve as indicators of the technological progress in the exact place and time that the author wants to bring to the audience. One of the largest and most popular science fiction universe is Star Trek, the creation of Gene Roddenberry for the TV of the sixties that conquered the big screen after converting the idea [...]
The presentation on the big screen of the short films in competition at ROS Film Festival will take place within the framework of FIAC, the contemporary art festival promoted by the Cultural Institute of León, a meeting of the world's avant-garde of all artistic expressions, which has been held in this city of the state of Guanajuato since 1994. El Caleidoscopio, the organization responsible for the ROS Film Festival, as well as presenting a selection [...]
While we are deeply immersed in the phase of reception of short films and working hard, with enthusiasm and affection after the release of ROS Film Festival (Robotic Online Short Film Festival) last April 14, we are preparing the presentation of ROS Film Festival at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (Sitges). The event will take place on October 12 at 7 pm. Sitges Festival, which celebrates its 49th edition this year, is the [...]
The other day I woke up startled. I had just dreamt about an acquaintance of my childhood and teenage years with whom I had neither a special friendship, nor was she part of my life, but I liked her. It was a peaceful sleep, we were chatting about trivialities when, just before I woke up I remembered that she had died some years ago. I am still unable to identify what thoughts or memories took [...]
He is a writer and a broadcaster at Radio 3 from just before the beginning of this century and, among many other radio jobs, he has lead for over five years Fallo de sistema, a weekly show dedicated to video games, fantasy, science fiction and popular science from the most interesting perspective these issues can be addressed: from wonder. We were with him a few weeks ago at the headquarters of RNE (Spanish National Radio) [...]
The filmmaker Javier Chillon has answered our robotic questionnaire in the most inspiring way we could imagine. In the end it was lucky not to be able to meet personallyfor the interview and record the video with our camera because the result, this self-interview made from the questions we sent him, cannot be more personal and suggestive. One of the most outstanding qualities of Javier Chillón, who has a degree in Communication [...]
We had a chance to talk to the writer and journalist Rosa Montero at Robocity16 about Robotics, Art and Culture, about her concerns towards a foreseeable near future in which our relationship with robots will narrow. When we talked about the ROS Film Festival, Rosa felt excited to join our jury and kindly answered some questions about how she imagines our future with robots. Rosa feels a deep interest in science and is a big fan [...]
Ethical dilemmas with cars and Will Smith’s technophobia in I, Robot Inspector Spooner (Will Smith), main character of the film I, Robot (Alex Proyas, 2004) declares himself an absolute technophobe in the future (year 2035) in which robots of all kinds do much of the work and become the perfect personal assistants for the human being. Systems capable of being programmed to demolish a building at the appointed time, cars that drive autonomously without human [...]
One of the key steps in the creation of machines is the design, how the user will approach the machine, how intuitive and practical its use is. This is true for both the creation of real machines, like in films, or other cultural works. Carlos Salgado, illustrator and designer responsible for designing Pilgrim 7000, the humanoid robot starring in the film Autómata. As he expressed in the "Robotics, Art and Culture" workshop held last [...]
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