Week 3: The Unification of Robots and Art

 A common trend within the past weeks has been the combination of 'art' with other processes and finding the similarities that help these work together. In week 3's lecture, the focus has been around the fine implications of art on robots and learning about the history to help us understand where we are in society today. 

Robots are complicated structures that carry out a complex series of actions automatically. Because robots are related to process of industrialisation and manufacturing this uses computation from basic math and art skills to produce the creative robot structure. 

Industrialisation of Robots

In lecture 3, Professor Vesna gave insight to the history of industrialisation and mechanism explaining how it started. We learned Henry Ford was one of the first to create an assembly line for the production of automobile. This also lead on to show one of the big steps was press printing which was able to print 90 more pages a day due to an advancement in technology. The invention of robots has made so many things in our world more achievable but this also might not be the best thing...

The idea of robots continued to develop in films like Blade runner where labor was being replaced through the use of robots. Throughout the film "replicants" are similar to human androids but over time they evolve and reach similar levels as to humans - which continues to raise scary unthought of issues in the film. 

I see the strong relationship between Art and Robots through the creativity aspect. These idea's need to be innovative for them to actually work in our modern world. An interesting aspect mentioned in lecture was the idea of using a robot to encourage people in park to remain social distancing and have their masks on. It is going to take a lot for someone to listen to a robot on the street that might not seem like it has the same authority as a human like a police officer. However, it's been seen to actually be working as a reminder to help keep people safe. The math side of the production of robots allows them to be produced through computing and coding - a complicated procedure but once completed is unstoppable. 

Robot encouraging citizens to social distance and wear masks

For me thinking ahead to the future I think robots are able to help us out in so many ways making humans jobs a lot easier. Repetitive jobs which once humans were required to sit for hours completing a task will be made a lot easier due to robots being able to take over. However this comes with a price... Are humans creating technology that is going to leave people without jobs that were once done by humans? This is a scary thought that what was once a technology could now do humanly functions. 

Robots are the new way of life built through the functions of Art, Math and Science to create a foundation that could be smarter and work harder than any human ever could. 

Sources: 

'Blade Runner' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/ 

'Keeping up with the Robots' https://www.raconteur.net/technology/automation/keeping-up-with-the-robots/

'Covid Robot' https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-13/coronavirus-singapores-robot-dog-enforces-social-distancing

' Industrialisation of Robots' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/robots-jobs-employees-artificial-intelligence

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/robots-could-take-over-20-million-jobs-by-2030-study-claims.html