Robot media

Robots in film, TV, literature, and music:

• R.U.R. – 1920 science fiction play by Czech writer Karel Čapek.

• “Robby The Robot” in  the 1956 movie, “Forbidden Planet”

• “The Robot” in “Lost in Space” the 1960’s TV series, “Lost in Space”

• Isaac Asimov: The Three Laws of Robotics

• The Alan Parsons Project- I Robot  (1977 album) Wikipedia

• 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey” –
  “HAL 9000: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

• Star Wars film 1977 – forever, maybe? – R2D2

• Netflix 2018 series “Lost In Space” robot

Robot engineering:

• Shakey the Robot: The First Robot to Embody Artificial Intelligence

• Spot - Boston Dynamics

  • TED2017 – “Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run. hops, and open doors. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics

  • New dog-like robot from Boston Dynamics can open doors (2018)

  • You Can Finally Buy Boston Dynamics' Spot, But You Can't Use It For Evil (2020)

  • Adam Savage Tests Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot!

  • How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance

• Scribit – Turn your wall into an interactive canvas (Kickstarter)

• Soft autonomous earthworm robot at MIT

• Simone Giertz:

  • Simone Giertz demonstrates her projects on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz (TED talk)

  • TED2018: Simone Giertz – “Why you should make useless things.”

• Robot with a rat brain

• Inside Adam Savage’s Cave: Awesome Robot Spider! (http://www.robugtix.com/)

• ForwardX Ovis: 1st AI-Powered Suitcase Following by Side

  • https://www.ovis.ai/ 

• BionicFinWave – Underwater robot with unique fin drive

• Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot

• Meet NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance, Launching This Summer

  • Meet the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance launching this year

• Robots that paint

  • https://robotart.org/

  • http://www.cloudpainter.com/

• Hello Robot's Stretch "Hello Robot's Stretch wants to reinvent how mobile manipulators perform tasks in home environments"

• Disney Research Makes Robotic Gaze Interaction Eerily Lifelike