ROBOTS 101

A look at the history, culture and science of robots and how they’re changing the world!

Join TU Professors Alican Camci, John Hale, Ben Peters and Joshua Schultz and the Creative Director of Riffraff Tulsa Meagan Mulgrew for a wide-ranging overview of robots!

Joshua Schultz will explore how robots in the workplace might make us more human by taking on repetitive, industrial tasks. Ben Peters will look at history of R.U.R. (or Rossum’s Universal Robots), its Prague context, golems, puppetry and other imaginations of simulated human beings. Meagan Mulgrew will follow by explaining why and how she went about adapting R.U.R. for modern audiences. Alican Camci will look the history of musical automatons. And, John Hale will explore the relation between body, mind, and reason in thinking about robots as well as the cybersecurity around robots.

All attendees will be entered into a raffle to win two pairs of tickets to R.U.R., which will be staged at 101 Archer Oct. 9-12, as well as copies of “Robopocalypse” by TU alumnus Daniel Wilson.

Magic City Books will be on site selling sci-fi smash hits that you’ll want to add to your bookshelf. Attendees will also have an opportunity to interact with some of the Boston Dynamics robots in TU’s lab.