Aberystwyth Robotics Week 2019
24-29th June, 2019
We are celebrating UK Robotics Week with a range of events and activities for all ages throughout the week.
Overview
Robot Olympics
Robot Craft
From Fiction to Reality
Date: 26/06/19 16:00-21:00
Location: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Showing of a film addressing issues related to robot companions and the use of robots in health care. The screening will take place in the Arts Centre cinema, followed by a panel discussion.
Robot and Frank (12)
Directed by Jake Schreier
Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon
(USA 2012, 89mins)
As part of UK Robotics week 2019, Aberystwyth University presents “From Fiction to Reality”; a film, pizza and panel night, showing Robot and Frank, with an opportunity to ask the experts about the latest developments in AI and Robotics. Pizza will be available prior to the film, and the panel members will be available in the theatre bar afterwards for further questions.
In the near future, Frank is a retired catburglar living alone while his successful son, Hunter, tries to care for him from afar. Finally, Hunter gets him a robot caretaker, but Frank soon learns that it is as useful as a burglary aide. As Frank tries to restart his old profession, the uncomfortable realities of a changing world and his worsening dementia threaten to take beyond what any reboot can do for him.
Film tickets must be purchased from the Arts Centre.
5.00pm - 5.30pm: Pizza available in Theatre Bar
5.30pm - 7.00pm: Showing of Film 'Robot and Frank' in the Cinema
7.00pm - 7.45pm: Expert Panel talking about the film and taking questions.
8.00pm onwards: Discussion continues informally in Theatre Bar.
Panel:
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Dr Otar Akanyeti Expert in Technology for Health Monitoring and Bio-inspired Underwater Robotics |
Dr Rachel Rahman Expert in Psychology and the development of tele-health for rural areas |
Dr Patricia Shaw Expert in Humanoid Robotics and Developmental AI |
Chaired by:
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Mr Martin Nelmes Outreach coordinator for the Institute of Maths, Physics and Computer Science |
Evening of Robotics
Beach Lab
Date: 29/06/19 10:00-16:00
Location: Aberystwyth Bandstand
Spend the day at the beach with the robots and humans from the Aberystwyth Robotics Club!
Drawn Together Wales meets Beach Lab
Come and have a go at drawing the amazing variety of robots and humans at Beach Lab, including a real, live(?) Dalek.
The Drawn Together project encourages people all over Wales to draw what they see, then share their drawings to create a drawn map of Wales. From the dramatic to the mundane, the unique to the familiar, the human to the robot, drawing evokes a personal connection and appreciation of place.
To celebrate Wales drawn together, all sketches that are added to the map will be displayed throughout October in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Visit www.drawntogether.wales for more information.
If you’d like to know more about robots...or drawing...or drawing robots...come and join us. It doesn’t matter how you draw, if you can see it in front of you, you can draw it.
(No need to book, just turn up and enjoy the fun, if the robots don’t get you first. Drawing books and materials supplied). Exterminate...