The AI Project

Karen Getz's AI Project is a comic-actors ballet about the developing world of humanoid robots. Set in a warehouse of rejected robots and robot parts, we follow the story of one human and his four emotionally intelligent machines. The idea for the project came when Getz's 11 year old daughter showed her footage from the Hanson Robotics Lab of several strikingly "human" robots. Hanson, and leading humanist robotic engineers across the globe, are creating biologically-inspired robots that mirror the behavior of people. This is a new generation of robotic engineering that is able to mimic not just movement, or even emotion, but eye contact, face recognition, and naturalistic spoken conversation. Research for the project has already been underway for over a year. Getz spent time at Hanson Robotics in Dallas observing AI robots under construction, at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute exploring the history of the field and recent advances, and at the MIT Museum working with their collection. As these scientists explore what it means to be human, they tackle the question from both a scientific and artistic perspective.




*The AI Project was funded by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Theater Initiative and an Interdisciplinary Professional Development Grant.
With James Sugg, Dito Van Reigersberg, Heather Murphy, Dave Jadico and Makoto Hirano
Original Music and Sound Design Christopher Colucci
Set Mark O'Maley
Lighting Shelley Hicklin
Costumes Carla Bellisio
Dramaturgy Suli Holum
Production Manager Anna Drozdowski
Stage Manager Tom Shotkin
Mentors Dan Rothenberg and Melanie Joseph

Conception-Choreography-Direction Karen Getz

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Entertainment

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• Bristol Riverside Theatre
• Theatre
• Karen Getz
• Bucks County
• MAKOTO HIRANO
• DAVE JADICO
• HEATHER MURPHY
• JAMES SUGG
• DITO VAN REIGERSBERG
• The AI Project
• Robotics
• THE GRUNDY COMMONS

[Gina64xo]

A very nice presentation of humoid robots. AI field is very interesting :-)

[luisbeck007]

- THis is the AI project what I see is just humans with 5% of the brain potential developed, with world record of drug addicts, world record of debt, world record of people in jail and so on... just watch the garbage robots around....