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Robots increasingly taking over film camera work

December 30, 2021 by Mark Allinson Leave a Comment

Robots are increasingly taking over from what has traditional been the preserve of human creative people – film camera work.

According to a company called SISU Cinema Robotics, more and more film creators are turning to automated systems for recording moving images.

“Businesses, both large brands and independent retailers, have seen a rise in sales after the spike in high quality content across platforms,” says a SISU spokesperson in an email to Robotics and Automation News. [Read more…] about Robots increasingly taking over film camera work

Filed Under: News, Technology Tagged With: austin-based, brands, camera, cinema, company, content, creative, creators, film, increasingly, robot, robotics, robots, sisu, tools, work

How Realistic is AI in Films?

June 8, 2021 by Mark Allinson Leave a Comment

Hollywood loves Sci-Fi and artificial intelligence is one of the genre’s most popular themes. Robots, in particular, have played center stage in many Sci-Fi flicks. And they have not always been positioned in a positive light. On the contrary, many such films have depicted dystopias where robots take over the world.

Having virtually no knowledge of AI from any other sources, many have taken these inaccurate depictions of robotics as reality. In fact, according to research by a leading AI authority, Fountech, a quarter of adults in the UK believe that AI might lead to the end of humanity.

So what are the most and least plausible robots in fiction? Here are four depictions of robotics in films that sit at both ends of the scale. [Read more…] about How Realistic is AI in Films?

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Features Tagged With: a.i., ai, ava, capable, chappie, conscious, consciousness, dave, despite, emotions, fact, film, films, goals, highly, human, love, nathan, plausible, pre-programmed, programmed, programmer, robot, robotics, robots, space, time

Pretentious method-acting humanoid robot to star in $70 million Hollywood blockbuster film

June 29, 2020 by Mai Tao Leave a Comment

A humanoid robot developed by Japanese scientists is to star in a $70 million budget Hollywood film.

The name of the robot is Erica, and it was created by famed humanoid roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, along with fellow scientist Kohei Ogawa.

The two creators are said to have programmed Erica in the art of “method acting”, in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part. [Read more…] about Pretentious method-acting humanoid robot to star in $70 million Hollywood blockbuster film

Filed Under: Humanoids, News Tagged With: acting, created, developed, emotions, erica, experiences, film, hollywood, humanoid, khoze, life, reporter, robot, role, scientist, simulate, star, story

Kuka milling robot used to manufacture film props

June 3, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Whether it is in series like Stranger Things or in blockbusters like Men in Black: International, filmmakers continuously need creative and high quality props.

To make these, a company called Robocarv, from the UK, is now using automation made in Germany – and have a Kuka milling robot manufacture the props.

The Kuka robot mills the props from blocks of plastic. (See video below.) [Read more…] about Kuka milling robot used to manufacture film props

Filed Under: Design, News Tagged With: blocks, film, kuka, manufacture, manufactured, milling, mills, props, robocarv, robot

The Questor Tapes: Novocaine for the android’s soul

May 8, 2018 by David Edwards

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Watching old films probably has the same effect as taking novocaine or whatever it is that dentists give you these days as a local anaesthetic before they inflict the worst pain imaginable right inside your gaping piehole. 

The discomfort of modern life – and perhaps this only applies to older people – is somewhat anaesthetised by the eye-candy that is old film formats.

Or should that be “true” film formats, as in actual film rather than the zeros and ones on electrical circuitry somewhere inside today’s digital cameras?  [Read more…] about The Questor Tapes: Novocaine for the android’s soul

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: film, the questor tapes

The Companion: Romancing the android

May 3, 2018 by David Edwards

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Human relationships can be difficult, especially when they involve sex and romance. 

The emotional investment people make in each other is often not repaid. Unrequited love is an age-old concept and a reality for many people.

In this film, The Companion, the lead character is a writer whose partner cheats on her.  [Read more…] about The Companion: Romancing the android

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: android, film, the companion

The Titan: Humans genetically engineered to live on Saturn’s moon

April 25, 2018 by David Edwards

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The Titan is about a group of specially selected astronauts who are not only trained for a mission to one on Saturn’s moons — Titan — they are actually genetically engineered to survive in its climate without the need for space suits or any other kind of protective equipment.

Even if you don’t know much about the climate on Titan, you can guess that it’s not enough like Earth to allow human life — or any kind of life to survive — without some serious, possibly unimaginable, modifications to our bodies at the molecular and even atomic level.

It’s a terrific flight of fancy, the type of apparently preposterous yarn to which science fiction lends itself perfectly well.

After all, how many alien planets have you seen fictional characters land on only to find that they can breathe normally and survive perfectly well without instantly incinerating or something.

Basically, it probably doesn’t take much for the average film fan to suspend his or her disbelief long enough to allow the story to run its course.

And while there is some attempt at explaining the science behind the idea that makes such a thing possible, the real story, or the subtext, is about adapting to life on Earth.

Sam Worthington plays the lead character in the film. He is one of the group of about a dozen astronauts who are trained and genetically modified for the journey to, and life on, Titan.

The idea is that this group will go and make the place habitable for the rest of the human population to gradually migrate there.

The reason why such a drastic course of action is decided upon is that Earth is, of course, is practically destroyed and increasingly uninhabitable — and time is running out.

We don’t want to give much of the film away but it’s not really what we expected, although that is not a bad thing.

Like I say, although the film’s premise is the idea of preparing people for life on an alien planet, it turns out that the alien planet is our own.

In some ways, it’s quite a difficult film to watch — heart-rending in places, especially when the Worthington character and his family have to face the reality of what is happening.

Also, it’s not easy to watch a film about someone — or some people — being experiment on with a view to turning them into supersoldiers, a military program which is believed to exist.

Of course, there is also the usual tension between those who see themselves as the creators of this new type of being and those who have been created or at least genetically modified. The creators always seem to want total control over their creation as though they were robots, even if they are human.

But although the film does address a few perennial or even eternal questions, it has enough quality to make it watchable from beginning to end.

It’s just that our idea of what makes a happy ending seems to have been modified by someone, probably while we were sleeping.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: film, the titan

Marjorie Prime: Virtual relatives provide comfort from the afterlife

April 8, 2018 by David Edwards

A couple of years ago, a computer game called Pokémon Go!, which could be played on smartphones, became so popular worldwide that it was said to have crashed the Google servers it was running on. 

People everywhere were peering into their smartphones – not that they needed any additional encouragement to do that – and seeing the world through their cameras, except the world through the smartphone screen was augmented with images of the little critter from Pokémon Go!.

The game involved finding the small, dinosaur-like critter here, there and everywhere. I don’t know what the prize was for finding them, but it seems millions of people were looking for them worldwide.  [Read more…] about Marjorie Prime: Virtual relatives provide comfort from the afterlife

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, film, marjorie prime

The Discovery: Postcards from the afterlife

March 17, 2018 by Sam Francis

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Being from a pre-internet age, I find it surprising when an online company makes or at least funds a good movie, and The Discovery is a very good movie. 

And it’s not just because Robert Redford stars in it that makes it look like a good movie, although that is definitely an advantage because he gives the film a sort of timeless quality and provides a link between an older generation who lived without many of the astounding technologies we know about and perhaps use today.

He’s also an appropriate casting selection for a Netflix movie because he’s a champion of independent films and founded the Sundance Film Festival. Not to mention the fact that he’s also been in some of the most memorable movies of all time, and some that are less well known but of a very high quality nonetheless.  [Read more…] about The Discovery: Postcards from the afterlife

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: film, robert redford, science fiction, the discovery

Kawasaki gloating over appearance of its robots in latest Transformers film

August 4, 2017 by Sam Francis

kawasaki robots in transformers film

 

Kawasaki is clearly very pleased with the appearance of not one but two of its industrial robots in the new Hollywood blockbuster film, Transformers 5: The Last Knight. 

The company has been crowing about its fame on its website.

The two Kawasaki RS010L robots make an appearance in the Transformers film.  [Read more…] about Kawasaki gloating over appearance of its robots in latest Transformers film

Filed Under: Industrial robots, Industry, News Tagged With: film, industrial, kawasaki, robots, transformers 5

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