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Drone shows: Creative potential and best practices
Drone shows, such as the ones shown above, are a new and rapidly evolving sector of the entertainment industry....
RoboThespian gets its own YouTube channel
Kassie Perlongo
24 Jun 2016
The team behind RoboThespian, a life-sized humanoid robot designed for human interaction in a public environment, have launched a new YouTube channel: Robot's World. The robot is very much real an...
15 robot portraits taken with an 1880s camera
Kassie Perlongo
05 Apr 2016
Amsterdam-based photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx feels inspired by the slow style of classic photography. So influenced, in fact, you can find her observing all her subjects through an old-fashioned...
SPARKED wins at New York City Drone Film Festival
ETH Zurich
07 Mar 2016
SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters won the 2016 New York City Drone Film Festival (NYCDFF) Featuring Drones category.
NYCDFF is the world's first event exclusively dedicated ...
Four classic movie robots that are no longer far fetched
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
18 Nov 2015
Cinemagoers have long been fascinated by fictional robots, but they're not usually realistic -- until now. Thanks to technological advancements, some of the classic movie robots are now a realistic p...
Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights
Adrien Briod
08 Oct 2015
Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...
Documentary of a cyborg drummer
Robohub Editors
18 Sep 2015
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Beautiful short documentary by The Atlantic about amputee drummer Jason Barnes and Georgia Tech professor of music technology Gil Weinberg that explores "how robotics and artificial int...
The making of sci-fi adventure Robot Overlords
Graham Edwards and Cinefex
03 Jul 2015
In the low-budget British sci-fi adventure, Robot Overlords, alien automatons rule the streets and ordinary citizens are locked under curfew in their homes. Just by stepping outside, you risk being v...
The robots in Ex Machina: VFX Q&A with Andrew Whitehurst
Graham Edwards and Cinefex
26 Jun 2015
Ever since Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, the concept of a robot with artificial intelligence has held movie audiences in thrall. Now, as the science fiction dream of AI becomes ever-more plaus...
Human-robot emotional and musical interactions: Lecture by Massimiliano Zecca
In this video lecture, Massimiliano Zecca from the Healthcare Technology and Head of the Healthcare Technology group at Loughborough University discusses emotional robotics, musical robotics and...
The real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Helmut Hauser
28 Apr 2015
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
A bionic model is born
Open Bionics
17 Mar 2015
The personalisation of healthcare devices has been a growing trend in the maker-sphere. From gold-plated hearing aids, neon walking sticks, and sparkling blade prosthetics to 3D printed arm casts, peo...
From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
Hallie Siegel
12 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]What do you get when you cross hundreds of drones with an indoor football stadium equipped with GPS?[/tweetquote] Quite possibly the world's largest drone entertainment show the world has ...
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
Audrow Nash
23 Jan 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
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Robotics in Theatre, Film, and Television, with Grant Imahara and Richard McKenna
Ron Vanderkley
13 Dec 2014
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mythbusters‘ Grant Imahara, and Richard McKenna from The Creature Technology Company about robotics in the film, television and th...
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
Hallie Siegel
24 Sep 2014
If you thought "SPARKED" - the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios - is too real-looking to be CGI, you were right. But why go to all the trouble of using quadrotors to ...
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
Markus Waibel
22 Sep 2014
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
Automata: The new “sci-fi” blockbuster set to put robot ethics under a spotlight
Adriana Hamacher
19 Sep 2014
A major new sci-fi movie, Automata, promises to not only provide a feast for the eyes (see below for a clip from the film), but an overdue opportunity to spotlight some of the ethical dilemmas arising...
Project Hieroglyph: Science fiction for better futures
Joey Eschrich
16 Sep 2014
It seems like our most popular visions of the future always end with environmental collapse, authoritarian oppression … and the ever-popular zombie apocalypse. Science fiction, what Clive Thompson c...
Robots reborn: Upcycled illuminated robot sculptures by +Brauer
Robohub Editors
15 Sep 2014
Bruno Lefevre-Brauer (known as +Brauer), is a graphic designer living in Paris. Over the past 20 years he has designed numerous album covers for French and international artists and pursued his person...
“Drone Art” – an excerpt from The Drone Primer
This is an excerpt from The Drone Primer: A Compendium of the Key Issues, a free, one-stop, handbook addressing the basic and fundamental questions around drones in all their contexts, from foreign th...
If your avatar could talk, what would it say?
Mark Stephen Meadows
05 Sep 2014
Image © Dito Von Tease / ditology.
When I was in high school I was a big fan of graphic novels. In art class I used to splash out paintings – portraits mostly – and would write on them, givin...
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Birdly, with Max Rheiner
Audrow Nash
22 Aug 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Max Rheiner from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) about his project Birdly. Birdly explores the experience of a bird in flight with several methods. Unl...
Why do people love robots? Find out in this Botscar-winning Robot Film Festival short
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain
11 Aug 2014
"Why We Love Robots" is a 5-minute short documentary film co-directed by UC Berkeley Prof. Ken Goldberg and his wife, award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain. The film was nominated for an Emmy Award a...
Mind of life: An excerpt from Daniel Wilson’s new sci-fi novel, Robogenesis
Daniel Wilson
29 Jul 2014
This excerpt is from my novel Robogenesis, in which humankind is trying to put together the pieces of a shattered civilization after a war between men and machines. In the aftermath of the robopocalyp...
