Robots Perform Shakespeare

November 18th, 2009 admin

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been updated for the 21st century with seven small robots playing fairies alongside carbon-based co-stars. Beyond being a cool thing to do, researchers saw bringing bots to the Bard as a chance to introduce robots to the public and see how people interact with them. Their findings could influence how robots are designed and how they’re used in search-and-rescue operations. “It’s now possible for these unmanned aerial vehicles to be used for evacuation or crowd control,” said Robin Murphy , a computer science and engineering professor at Texas A&M…


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