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08/28/2005 Entry: "Video of the Philip K Dick bot."
Video of the Philip K Dick bot. Kinda impressive, a bit creepy, but a nice PR ploy by the people over at Hanson Robotics. It would be great if it was donated to a museum and remained on display to give out advice and conspiracy theories posthumously.
"Uncle Dick, will I find love? Is V.A.L.I.S. a metaphor for the unknown? Was the unnamed musician Brian Eno? Do tell!"
Also: Hanson robotics homepage.
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I saw this briefly at the nextfest. It wasn't ever functioning properly except for a 20 minute period of time where only a couple girls and the operator were in there with it. The opperator was doing more talking to the girls than the robot was.
Posted by Dave @ 08/29/2005 05:34 AM CST
The PKD simulacra was at Comic-Con, as part of the promotion of A Scanner Darkly.
Article with piccies at Ain't It Cool News.
I was sure that I had seen video of this event, but now I suspect I was having a Time Out Of Joint moment.
Posted by Larry Mudd @ 08/29/2005 04:38 PM CST
Huh. The comments script broke the URL because it points to a CGI script, I guess. Cut & paste:
www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20725
Posted by Larry Mudd @ 08/29/2005 04:42 PM CST
