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...flying cars are coming, what’s taking so long? In the book “Where’s My Jetpack?” published last spring, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson demands, “The time has come to hold the golden age of science fiction accountable for its fantastic promises.” Wilson’s tongue-in-cheek remark sums up the unspoken feelings of a generation of Americans who were told they would ride a jetpack to work, eat a whole meal in a pill, and vacation on the moon by the year...
...year, when ADT presents its latest and most maximalist work thus far. In the wake of a season at the Sydney Festival, Devolution pushes Stewart's high-voltage style to bursting point, pitting man against machine, muscle against metal. For this, the Adelaide-based choreographer has worked with Montreal "roboticist" Louis-Philippe Demers to engineer a fleet of moving machines that interact with ADT's 10 dancers on stage. By the end, performers don computer-programmed prosthetics in a dystopian dance with a visual style reminiscent of Mad Max. At a time when contemporary choreography so often underwhelms, Devolution...
Roomba had three parents: Rodney Brooks, director of M.I.T.'s AI Lab, and two of his former graduate students, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner. Brooks, who was featured in the 1997 documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, is arguably the world's greatest living roboticist. A voluble Australian, he's famous for finding radical, counterintuitive approaches to intractable problems; the NASA rover that went to Mars aboard Pathfinder was designed using techniques he pioneered...
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