Robotics + Art

An example of what I thought of while reviewing this lecture was the movie called " i,ROBOT." It's based in 2035 and highly intelligent robots fill the jobs of public service. In this movie, Will Smith plays the role of the main character (Detective Dell Spooner)  while investigating an apparent suicide of the main scientist for the robot creation, believes that these highly intelligent robots will take over the human race.  I feel these relate to the Japanese robots described by Machiko Kusahara in the lecture video below. The idea bought out is that the improvement of technology has expanded the role of robotics within our world.  These may eventually be what all of our world consists of because day by day people are losing more jobs to technology.

https://youtu.be/xQZ_sy-mdEU

Link to lecture video

 

A scene from the movie "i, Robot"

http://solecollector.com/news/adidas-yeezy-350-boost-legit-check-real-fake

Machines have taken over the way we produce mass products. With this easy way of mass production, i feel we have lost the sense of true value because of it. Replicas are now an acceptable thing to purchase. People do not care if things are real or not, they just care about how it looks and how cool they'll look. This is apparent with the frenzy over Kanye West's Yeezy shoe. Yeezy's are the hottest shoes right now and people will do anything to buy them but they're very expenisve. Since they are so expensive to buy, people decide to buy cheaper/ fake Yeezy shoes to look cool.

                                       https://youtu.be/st99nYzPEbE    

                                                                                      Video of how serious real vs fake gets

Comparing real and fake Yeezy's                                      

                                          http://artbots.org/2002/background.shtml

I also found the Art bots link was intersting as well. People actually build these robots to compete in competitions with other robots made by other humans. The goal of these competitions are to see whose robot can do the most exotic specific tasks a robot is capable of doing but they're are many rules and regulations you must follow in order to make it fair for everyone. As a child, I loved transformers and I always wanted to be able to actually build one. So seeing that there is actually competitions for building great robots, fascinated me!

A Picture of Optimus Prime (My FAVORITE Trasnformer)

CITATIONS

Irving, Douglas. "PLEASE NOTE: This Is Information about the 2002 ArtBots Show. For Current ArtBots Info, Please See: Http://artbots.org." ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show. Art Bots, 2011. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.

Richard, Brandon. "How To Tell If Your Adidas Yeezy 350 Boosts Are Real or Fake." Solecollector. Sole Collector, 9 July 2015. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.

Ramos, Ryan. "How To Tell If Your Yeezy Boost 350 Are Real Or Fake! Legit Check On All 4 Pairs!" YouTube. Youtube, 12 Jan. 2016. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.

Vensa. "Robotics MachikoKusahara 1." YouTube. Youtube, 14 Apr. 2012. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.