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Robotics in Star Trek or how to keep humanist utopia through technological singularity

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 [...]

By Angeles| October 17th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology|0 Comments

ROS FILM Festival at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (Sitges)

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 [...]

By Angeles| September 21st, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema|0 Comments

Robot Dreams

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 [...]

By Angeles| September 12th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema|0 Comments

Ethical dilemmas with cars and Will Smith’s technophobia in I, Robot

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 [...]

By Angeles| July 8th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology, Uncategorized|0 Comments

The future legacy of Dieter Rams to robotics

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 [...]

By Angeles| June 16th, 2016|Categories: Design, Robotic cinema, Technology|0 Comments

From the Cold War to robotic rights with Short Circuit

Anyone who lived during the 1980s, the last decade of the Cold War, has felt in their own flesh what it means to be concerned about an imminent war based on sophisticated and powerful missiles between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the presidential term of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) the US achieved military supremacy over its enemy by a large investment in military technology, paying the price of an impoverished country with great [...]

By Angeles| May 26th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology|Tags: Robots, singularity|0 Comments

RoboCop’s limbic system

Thanks to Martine Verhoeven's unprejudiced vision, the film RoboCop (1987) became the icon of science fiction of the eighties and still survives as such. Without her vision, the film might have never been shot. Jon Davison, producer of the project, had contacted all talented directors he knew, but without exception they rejected the offer because they did not want such an apparently simple science fiction story to tarnish their film careers. Its title was, above [...]

By Angeles| May 12th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology|Tags: Cyborg, Robots|0 Comments

The Turk, Deep Blue’s fake grandfather

The Enlightenment was an exciting time in which the unprejudiced progress of science and thought allowed new wonders to cause great sensation in society. One of them was the manufacture of automata, thanks to the perseverance, creativity and technical and physiological knowledge of its creators, mimicked living beings. Such is the case of the flute player created by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), a lifesize shepherd presented to the French Academy [...]

By Angeles| May 3rd, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology|Tags: Chess, Robots|0 Comments

The Iron Giant, a gun with a soul

Can a gun have a soul? This is the question Brad Bird wanted to answer when he embarked on the project of the animated film The Iron Giant, based on The Iron Man:A Children's Story in Five Nights (Faber and Faber, 1968), a children's novel with a pacifist approach written by the poet Ted Hughes. Warner Bros had about forty projects going on at that time and they gave the animation director the opportunity to [...]

By Angeles| April 19th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema|Tags: Robots, singularity|0 Comments

ROS Film Festival and … Action!

El Caleidoscopio presents one of its most ambitious projects today, the ROS Film Festival, an online short film festival where the attention will be focused on robots, who have a leading role in all the works submitted to the competition. Following our philosophy of merging science and culture, we concentrate on robotics and cinema, two worlds wherethe boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred, allowing us to recreate and imagine future scenarios that are often [...]

By ROS Film Festival| April 14th, 2016|Categories: Robotic cinema, Technology, Uncategorized|0 Comments

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