{"id":177,"date":"2008-03-30T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-03-30T19:05:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T08:05:38","slug":"059-adam-parker-robotics-and-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"059 &#8211; Adam Parker &#8211; Robotics and Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode I talk to Adam Parker, who is currently doing a PhD in robotics.  We talk about robots, and their portrayal in current society.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the topics mentioned in the interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxmon.com\/1921ad.htm\">Karel Capek<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R.U.R._(Rossum's_Universal_Robots)\">Rossum&#8217;s Universal Robots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0017136\/\">Metropolis IMDB site<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolis_(film)\">Metropolis wikipedia site<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kino.com\/metropolis\/\">Kino Metropolis site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai.mit.edu\/projects\/sociable\/baby-bits.html\">Kismet, the social robot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muslimheritage.com\/topics\/default.cfm?ArticleID=803\">Al-Jazari<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/muslimheritage.com\/topics\/default.cfm?ArticleID=848\">robot from the 11th century<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literature.org\/authors\/shelley-mary\/frankenstein\/\">Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/Humanities\/pschmid1\/essays\/pynchon\/vaucanson.html\">Jacques de Vaucanson&#8217;s mechanical duck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Engelberger\">Joseph Engelberger<\/a> and his robots<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM059-AdamParkerSciFiRobots.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 59<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/BrainsMatter?a=XAl6KUf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/digg.jpg\"> digg this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode I talk to Adam Parker, who is currently doing a PhD in robotics. We talk about robots, and their portrayal in current society. 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