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"What Can Robots Teach Us About Ourselves?"

15 Oct, 2013

"What Can Robots Teach Us About Ourselves?"

As technology keeps getting better and better, we humans keep asking ourselves, what separates us from our robotic creations? SInce the dawn of human civilization, we have been obsessed with robots, from the Golem of Prague to C3PO, artists, writers and other imaginers have had a lot to say about the dividing line between humans and robots. In this episode of filmmaker and Webby Award founder Tiffany Shlain's ongoing series "The Future Starts Here," Shlain teams up with husband, artist, and UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg to explain what robots and human can and cannot do well, and puts to rest the question, "Are robots going to take over?".