Week 3: Robotics + Art


When I watched the lectures, I was shocked that Printer was invented by the Chinese in 1040. I thought that we did not have printer until like the machines or the type writer came out but in 1040 is really old days. Idea of robot came from theater as a response to mechanization of labor and this was soon echoed in movies which is also new invention with the electricity. I have always thought that how the robot was first made and it was very interesting that it was first made for movie. After people were somewhat familiar with robots, engineers started to relate robots and biology together.


Nowadays robots are everywhere in our lives. Robots are not just human looking robots such as “Sophia” or transformer Optimus. Robots are like machines that uses some software to make our lives better such as smartphones, computers, printers, cars, etc. What I consider as art is very free. As people are more familiarized with the robots, they started to related to art and it sometimes looks unreal and grotesque.


I had really great opportunity to watch Professor Hong’s live talk show. I remember he talked about he had so many robots in his lab and told us that human robots seems to be very close, but it is not going to happen until decades. Self-services might replace humans’ work but robots replacing human’s life will not come. The main problem was that robots are as big as humans are too heavy to move around.



                                                                      Work Cited

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. London: Penguin, 2008. Print.
Brooks, Rodney. “Robots Will Invade Our Lives.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots.html
Davis, Douglas. “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” The MIT Press, 1995. Web. 19 Oct. 2012.
Dr. Dennis Hong.” RoMeLa, www.romela.org/dr-dennis-hong/.
Hong, Dennis. “My Seven Species of Robot -- and How We Created Them.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com/talks/dennis_hong_my_seven_species_of_robot.
“I, Robot (Film).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film).
Lipson, Hod. “Building ‘Self-Aware’ Robots.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.
“Sophia (Robot).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot).

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