{"id":4823,"date":"2022-02-21T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/uncanny-valley-the-moving-one-man-play-starring-an-animatronic-robot\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:39:54","slug":"uncanny-valley-the-moving-one-man-play-starring-an-animatronic-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/uncanny-valley-the-moving-one-man-play-starring-an-animatronic-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play \u2013 starring an animatronic robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a play that gave us the word \u201crobot\u201d \u2013 and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh \u2013 and cry? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A figure sits alone on stage, dressed in comfy jumper and trousers, one leg crossed over the other. He slowly moves his hands and turns his head. But this sole performer in Uncanny Valley, by theatre company Rimini Protokoll<\/a>, is not human. It is a lifelike animatronic model of the German writer Thomas Melle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s director, Stefan Kaegi<\/a>, had seen animatronics used in museums, where he found there was not sufficient time for what he calls the \u201cempathy mechanism\u201d to kick in. But he wondered what would happen if the robot became a performer, \u201csomeone with whom we start to identify\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was a play that gave us the word \u201crobot\u201d \u2013 and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh \u2013 and cry? <\/p>\n

A figure sits alone on stage, dressed in comfy jumper and trousers, one leg crossed over the other. He slowly moves his hands and turns his head. But this sole performer in Uncanny Valley, by theatre company Rimini Protokoll, is not human. It is a lifelike animatronic model of the German writer Thomas Melle.
\nThe show\u2019s director, Stefan Kaegi, had seen animatronics used in museums, where he found there was not sufficient time for what he calls the \u201cempathy mechanism\u201d to kick in. But he wondered what would happen if the robot became a performer, \u201csomeone with whom we start to identify\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a play that gave us the word \u201crobot\u201d \u2013 and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh \u2013 and cry? A figure sits alone on stage, dressed in comfy jumper and trousers, one leg crossed over the other. He slowly moves his hands …<\/p>\n

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