I just finished watching the movie “Bladerunner.” After telling the rest of The Mystery Workshop crew that I did not watch Bladerunner I was given an assignment from Andrew (head creator) to watch Bladerunner immediately. It was in a sort of ordering tone of voice. So after my journey to Comicon and fully deciding to understand the Sci-Fi realm in much better detail I watched this incredibly interesting movie.
Not only did the movie catch my attention because of the interesting way the story was told (started with a sort of “old style” Dick Tracy detective movie narrative). I thought the Asian and European mixed slang that one of the detectives used in the beginning of the movie to talk to the character Harrison Ford played was really cool. The Japanese and Chinese mixed background and marketing put the movie in a imaginative and futuristic backdrop. I loved it.
The backdrop then mixed in with genetic engineering and alien planet colonization with a story about robots with developed feelings and emotions.
“I think therefore I am”
Now – 28 years after the movie Bladerunner, we actually have a robot that is able to develop and show emotions. Nao was developed by a European research team and can form bonds with the people he meets.
First robot able to develop and show emotions is unveiled
When Nao is sad, he hunches his shoulders forward and looks down. When he is happy he raises his arms for a hug. When he is frightened he cowers and stays like that until he is soothed with some gentle strokes on the head.
Currently Nao is modeled for the first years of life and computer scientists at the University of Hertforshire are working on more advanced forms of emotional display to make interactions more natural and more comfortable. With Japanese researchers concentrating on advances in robot engineering, European roboticists have instead focused on studying how robots will interact with humans.
Bladerunner was a good movie, can't wait to watch the movie with my very own robot. I'd have to ask him what he or she thinks about it.
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