Robots are getting their own film festival next week in New York City, an exciting collection of shorts featuring robots exploring everything from scientific research to romance.
Slated for July 16 and 17 at Three Legged Dog theater in lower Manhattan, the inaugural Robot Film Festival will feature dozens of short films as well as a filmmaking workshop, robot entertainers, and a red-carpet awards ceremony, The Botskers.
The festival opens with Spike Jonze's 2010 romantic short "I'm Here" (see trailer below) and includes a host of new productions.
If you like getting creeped out by bots, one of the shorts that will be screened is "CB2: Child Robot with Biomimetic Body," showcasing the infamous CB2 cybertot developed at Osaka University.
The event is being organized by Heather Knight of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute; Marek Michalowski, co-developer of the ineffably cute dance robot Keepon, is the video coordinator.
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