TUCculture2025 | TU Chemnitz

2022 (completed project)
Faculty of Computer Science

Robotopics – Robots in film and literature

Since its beginnings, science fiction has tried to look into the future and has anticipated much with its extrapolations. It's no secret that most of the big technology tycoons from Bezos to Zuckerberg are avowed SF fans. SF is an important source of inspiration and provides models for Silicon Valley's visions of the future and inventions. One of the most popular motifs in SF popular culture is machine people. The lecture tells the story of robots in film and SF literature and questions the desires, hopes, fears or horrors associated with robots. To what extent does this genre influence our ideas about robots?