For example, like the guest speak professor Machico Kusahara mentioned in the video that how Japanese people love to create robotics and use innovation to let robots participate more in human being's life.
The picture shows a famous cartoon movie show in Asian area, which Machico Kusahara mentioned in the video. The robot boy named Astro who is born to help weakness and fight with the evil. Even though Astro Boy is born in Japan, it was translated to many different languages. The Astro Boy also became one of my favorite cartoon movie in my childhood.
The artists draw each movement of Astro Boy by using the computer system to let a robot boy reborn in the television screen.
Moreover, the Astro Boy became a hero in many young children's mind.
The first bipedal humanoid robot in China.
After Japan and America have started to develop the field of robotics, China wants to catch up with those developed countries as well. When the robotics was shown in the Expo '85 World Fair in Tsukuba, Japan, Chinese people get a better idea of creating a robot with their research since 1980s. On 2000, the first bipedal humanoid robot was born in China with nervous system, visual sensor, and synchronization. The robot is called "Xianxingzhe", which means "forerunner" in Chinese. It also open a new page of China's robotics field that bring up a robot craze in China.
http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/15/20001129/331342.html
Researchers from Chinese National University are working on programming the "Xianxingzhe".
Here is a short video about how robot can help people especially disable people and kids with autism. The happy face on the robot's facial expression influences those kids a lot, which brings them happiness as well.
Although robot do make contribution to society, some criticisms think with more developed technology, the robot will become smarter and more intelligent so that one day the robot will take control of human beings. This remind me of the movie called Terminator, where the computer system was destroyed and robot became conscious to control human beings and kill them.
Well-developed technology and art can mutual benefit each other, but also can destroy each other. As Walter Benjamin talks about in the reading this week, he criticizes that the mass reproduction of the artwork destroys the uniqueness and aura of art. He said "the presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity" that means painting work's aura has been lost with mass reproduction.
Dafen Village in China, where "thousands of artists recreate paintings sale overseas".
Citations:
Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. London: Penguin, 2008. Print.
Machiko Kusahara. Robotics MachikoKusahara 1. Web. 14 Apr 2012. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZ_sy-mdEU>
Wowen Wang. The First Robotics in China. Web. 29 Nov.2000. <http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/15/20001129/331342.html>
AldebaranRobotics. Robots teach communication to kids with autism. Web. 29 Apr.2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3vE7YFsGM#t=21>
Damien Gayle. Inside the Chinese village where thousands of artists recreate iconic paintings for sale overseas. Web. 23 July.2013. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2375270/Dafen-Oil-Painting-Village-thousands-artists-recreate-paintings-sale-overseas.html>
Hi. I like your mentioning the Japanese movies and its relation with art and robotics. However, I think Benjamin's idea is somehow too one-sided of the influence of technological developments. I see that aside from the fact that it sometimes undermines originality of art, it also brings people closer to art. Common citizens who may not have access to the original masterpieces can now admire them via various forms of technology.
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