EventsRobots - Conference Tickets - On CampusDescriptionThe Robot at 100: Culture, society, politics, and the future
Saturday 18 June 2022 - In Person On Campus
A conference to mark the centenary of the first staging in English of Karel Capek’s seminal play R.U.R.
9:00-10:00 a.m. Welcome and opening With Deputy Vice Chancellor Prof. Simeon Keates
10.00-10.15 a.m. Tea break
10.15-11.30 a.m. Panel 1: Robots, selves and politics
11.30 - 11.45 a.m. Tea break
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Panel 2: Robots and sex
12:45-1:45 p.m. Lunch + R.U.R. Czech THEaiTRE project: video recording of the ‘AI: When a Robot Writes a Play’.
1:45-2.15 p.m. Presentation on AI play (with 5/10 minute break at end of presentation/any questions)
2:15-3.45 p.m. Panel 3: Robots and Work
3:45-4:00 p.m. Tea break
4:00-5:30 p.m. Panel 4: Robots and the Human
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