Robots On Stage
Advanced robots, especially those that mimic human or animal traits, have a certain wow factor that immediately grabs attention, but the robot overlords scheming towards the robot uprising and total human enslavement know that they need to do more than amaze with technical wizardry. They know that to really get people to love and embrace robots they need to touch us emotionally by showing us cyborgs have feelings to. (Even though those feelings are pre-designed in thousands of lines of computer code.)
So it is that robots are taking the stage at the Kennedy Center this month at the “Japan! Culture and Hyper Culture” festival, which promises a cybernetic orgy of dancing robots, robots playing instruments, and all manner of other robots mingling with the hoi polloi in the refined atmosphere of the theatre. Once they get the highbrow crowd singing the praises of robots, the thinking goes, the masses will certainly follow.
For their sake, though, I hope the Kennedy Center puts on a better performance than the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Clive Barnes of the New York Post panned the dance troupe’s latest production “I Love My Robots,” saying, “The dancers were not compelling, the robots didn’t even brim with dust, let alone emotion.” Youch! We may have a ways to go before robots take over the Great White Way.
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