Robot-Human Theater
Nov 26th, 2008 | By Pates Baroni | Category: News
Osaka, Japan - While television and film have long held opportunities for robot advancement in the arts, live theater systematically shunned the programmed players. Today, what seemed a glass ceiling for some robots, and outright bigotry for others, has been shattered with a groundbreaking performance. Osaka University has become home to one of Japan’s first robot-human theatrical productions. The play, written by robot activist Oriza Hirata, explores the relationship between humans and technology. Titled Hataraku Watashi (I, Worker), the performance explores one housekeeping robot’s loss of vocational motivation. Its sympathetic plea to the couple it works for is heart wrenching. It complains that its jobs are boring. Many in the audience, who view technology as a means to simplify human existence, felt their preconceptions were directly challenged. The witty dialogue begs the question, “have we been limiting the great potential of that which we have created?”
Playwright Hirata pushes the envelope further as the robot announced the jobs were also demeaning. This sparks a conversation between the robot and humans about the role it plays in their lives. For the play’s 20 minute duration, the robot searches for motivation, perhaps a nod to Stanislavsky. By 2010, the lead actor, a Mitsubishi Wakamaru robot, is hoped to perform a standard full-length production. Surpassing the robots it grew up admiring, from Star Wars’ C3P0 and R2D2 to that hussy who hit on Paulie in Rocky IV, this little unit is all robot. With software developed at Osaka University, this 3 foot tall yellow sensation has forever broken its social cast as mechanical house sitter and secretary. It even got to wear a costume.
Many here in Japan, and around the world, have been touched by this story. With Japan’s economy officially in recession, North Korea’s missile threat, and a government that lacks cohesion and direction, this proud day for robot acting brings hope to the island nation.
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Is it hard to make a robot like this? it seems that this is so hard to create one like this.,
Japan is really known to its investors of robots and any high technologies.
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