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Event 2: 

For my second event I decided to go to the lecture given by Maša Jazbec. Maša Jazbec talked about humanized robots and androids and her experience with them. I found this lecture very interesting and it was cool. The term robot was coined jan 25, 1921 by Prague in Czech Republic. She talked about how robots are everywhere and how they are expanding. She went on to talk about how ATM Machines are considered robots because they take the place of a human being and the job of a human. The main part of her lecture that I found the most interesting was the humanoids. Humanoids are just humanized robots, they are interesting to me because I had never seen robots that looked so human like. She spoke about the different movies that used humanized robots. Golem is the first movie with robots. Bishop android,Aliens and Alien 3, was a robotic character along with Android Ray from the movie Blade Runner. I connected these movies to a movie I had watched when I was younger, Inspector Gadget. Inspector Gadget was a Disney movie that encompassed the works of humanized robotics.

We then went on to talk about some of the well known robots and what they can do as far as interaction. We talked about Telenoids, which is a teleoperated robot ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Lab[you can communicate with the robot/it even hugs you] We talked about ASIMO which is a robot that can walk up and downstairs and is well known around the world. Scientists want to have humanized robots walking around on earth that are helpful and live as humans. They have a DARPA Robotics Challenge which is a competition between robots to see which one could handle real world experiences. They have robots open and close doors, walk upstairs and downstairs, they must complete human tasks. For example they should be able to pick up boxes and get up when pushed down. There are scientist who have been able to make this happen, but there are still lots of modifications to be made.

The last thing I found extremely interesting was Professor DR. HIROSHI ISHIGURO. He created a replica of himself in humanoid form. The robot had such real person like qualities, from the finger nails to the eyebrows. This shows that this is an artwork combined with the use of robotics. Maša Jazbec will be working with understanding a robots perspective. She will be focusing on the ability for humans to see through the eyes of a robot. I really enjoyed this lecture and I was informed on so much and go to look at a lot of examples of robots that acted like humans and some even looked like humans.

Cite of photos

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/c/cd/Bishop_Halved.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091117004831

https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/open-uri20150422-12561-16waq7h_4f84d0b8.jpeg

http://makeagif.com/ebMPlp