June 30, 2010 at 9:00 pm | RobotTheatre
Back when I attended HRI, I had the opportunity to see Hiroshi Ishiguro’s “robot drama.” I wrote up a number of my thoughts in my personal blog.
I was glad to see this production, despite my complaints about it. At the very least, it gave me inspiration for my own work, and what I plan to do differently.
I, Worker
December 10, 2009 at 10:54 pm | RobotTheatre
Ishiguro Hiroshi and Hirata Oriza at Osaka University have gotten a bit of press for their production of “I, Worker”, a play in which two human actors interact with two Wakamaru robots.
In the play, the two robots work for the two humans, and one robot begins to question its lot in life. The play seems to raise some interesting philosophical questions, such that in addition to being an interesting human-robot interaction, it discusses human-robot interaction in a separate context too.
Midsummer Night’s Dream of Electronic Sheep
December 8, 2009 at 11:09 pm | RobotTheatre
At Texas A&M there was a production of a Midsummer Night’s Dream that used robot helicopters as fairies. From the videos linked to in the article above, its an interesting effect, although the robots did not have any lines. But they did interact with the actors and definitely added to the ambiance of the scene.
I’d say it was the best “casting” of robots that I’ve seen in a play thus far.