Robot film fest imagines a future filled with machines
July 19, 2011 | Source: New Scientist CultureLab
The first Robot Film Festival was held this past weekend at the 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center in Manhattan.
Organizer Heather Knight, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, hoped the 53 films accepted into the film festival would help us explore a future in which we are closely surrounded by robots.
A sampling:
The Machine: a man builds a robot that goes on to destroy the world.
Double A: a woman becomes furious with her printer, which morphs into a giant robot.
Out in the Street: robots commit suicide when they learn that they will need to be returned and replaced.