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The History and Future of Robots

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 – running time 05:12
Dr. Kiki gives you the history of robots along with some fun information about different types of early robots. (popSiren)

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Highlights
Buck Rogers ( 2:11 ) the band ( 2:44 ) flash Gordon ( 2:10 ) Robocop ( 2:37 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

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" Yeah -- being that did. Not and they. Zion and yeah. Yeah and business to edit this and I think yeah."

" Clearly you. Yeah. There's a lot yeah Steve Cellini pleasant and children. Yeah. Yeah yeah be very. Soon to be under any ambulance. You can off -- yeah. I do think that's really -- is just and it's. Not mean he's he's just. Yeah yeah."

" Green is bigger and he is hilarious if it -- We used dean and nobody. In technology bit lenient you."

" The technology is becoming acceptable. And yeah a lot of yeah that's -- it's happened in this robots cannot yeah."

" Yeah it's. At least eat read and very humanistic you think there's been kind of -- link between building -- an accident. -- human drives me eat my."

" A lot of people tune into electricity and Nevada and -- and instincts and the reality is best sense an opportunity yeah it's machinist and as he was shot and into. These one word means yeah."

" The real game and if so awesome I decided I had to go back for -- on Saturday and I can't wait to go back again next year it's going to -- even thinner and even better just."

" Big fat. I -- real and not pleased today I ordered the chemicals then you know the government probably stops somewhere on the way -- Anyway we're gonna get to it next week I promise well at least at the chemicals -- meantime the Disney. But talk about robots. Anyone -- had my audio podcast this week in science we know that I have a fascination with the robots specifically any idea of the well the robot domination. Why -- I find something happens here is world takeover of -- intriguing. Well for one robots everywhere research and development are putting robot into all the places you've got received from robotic influence. Thanks to government funding -- now robot planes both car isn't even insect. If he lives we have expected robots into our homes and workplaces as vacuum cleaners London lawyers patent and nurses. Yeah there even robot in hospitals running around dispensing medicine. And -- the real nurses. We haven't been able to advance the field of art especially intelligent and mouth to allow robot to perform more than design specific set of behaviors. But a quick look at the advancement of robots in pop culture. And that we are driven to create humanoid robot. To read -- light into inanimate objects. The term robot came out of a short story by -- back in 1918. But again you didn't play rock than universal robots in 1921. In which I did that but mr. Wright humankind. The -- movie that comes from the Czech word robot team meaning it forced labor that the idea of creating artificial life can be traced back. Thousands of years to stories of god that -- in fact using ancient Egypt and -- the area. The thirteenth century brought a common that built out of clock work. And in the century robot for me no of them burst onto the scene. Just a few years after -- explained in 1927. Movie metropolis he -- human elite blue male robot named Maria. The thirtieth had the likes of flash Gordon Buck Rogers and Superman fighting against team came and robot Villeneuve. In 1940 I have it -- wrote I robot which robot actually co existed with mankind and for which we got the three laws of robotics. In the 1950s we met gored in the -- earth stood still and Robby in forbidden planet but he did -- on -- becomes something of a celebrity. Robot -- cartoons became popular 1960s and 1990s we met Robocop and terminator IQD two C three -- from Star Wars. Commander data from start track press from blade runner and the band not to not to powers among many others. With robots becoming more and more -- everything that we deal. I thought I would visit an event Jesper robot and their creators the road games to see just where science and technology are leading. Ability -- isn't. --"

" Yeah -- being that did. Not and they. Zion and yeah. Yeah and business to edit this and I think yeah."

" Clearly you. Yeah. There's a lot yeah Steve Cellini pleasant and children. Yeah. Yeah yeah be very. Soon to be under any ambulance. You can off -- yeah. I do think that's really -- is just and it's. Not mean he's he's just. Yeah yeah."

" Green is bigger and he is hilarious if it -- We used dean and nobody. In technology bit lenient you."

" The technology is becoming acceptable. And yeah a lot of yeah that's -- it's happened in this robots cannot yeah."

" Yeah it's. At least eat read and very humanistic you think there's been kind of -- link between building -- an accident. -- human drives me eat my."

" A lot of people tune into electricity and Nevada and -- and instincts and the reality is best sense an opportunity yeah it's machinist and as he was shot and into. These one word means yeah."

" The real game and if so awesome I decided I had to go back for -- on Saturday and I can't wait to go back again next year it's going to -- even thinner and even better just."