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 [...]
If there is a personality who has represented the paradigm of union between science, technology and art, that is Leonardo da Vinci, who created the first humanoid automaton known to us, who of course, had military purposes. In the case of Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1619) his particular circumstances merged his outstanding intellectual abilities with some special conditions that allowed him to develop his talent. The illegitimate eldest son of the notary Ser [...]
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 [...]
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