Marilyn Monrobot

12/13/2023

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12/17/2013

The New Yorker profiles the latest Robot Comedians from England to Data to Japan! Insights from Will Jackson on RoboThespian and Rob Delaney on comedy in general... :-] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/a-robot-walks-into-a-bar.html

RoboThespian is programmed with jokes, an algorithm for comic timing, and a system for determining audience reactions.

07/15/2013

Only 5 days away!!

How we frame our storytelling will shape how we develop bots in the future.

06/10/2013

We're featured in GQ this month! "Comedy, like s*x and Taco Bell, is one of those things that gets less fun the more you analyze it" ...until it's a robot doing the computations! Let the revolution begin... http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201306/data-the-comedy-robot-june-2013

Can robots master one of the most mysterious, and quintessentially human, skills of them all: making people laugh? Meet Data, the world's first stand-up-comedy bot

04/30/2013

Excited to announce that this year's Robot Film Festival will be July 20-21 in San Francisco! Thank you Autofuss! Calling all robot movie makers!!

03/19/2013

Don't miss tonight's fight on SyFy 10pm!! Heather and John Peel control robot MEDIEVAL versus team STEAMPUNK!! Robot Combat League

And just to get you pumped: ENGINEERING SECRETS REVEALED!! http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/heather-knight-talks-robot-combat

CMU roboticist Heather Knight describes her experiences on Syfy's new robot combat show

03/12/2013

Yay robots! Special thanks to for bringing you my "Charismatic Machines & Robot Comedy Talk" as part of their Open Future series!!

03/12/2013

Great COMEDY TECH panel with Alf Lamont, Peter McGraw & Joel Warner this past weekend! Left to right: The least funny person on the panel (yah right!), the academic trying to break the humor code (good luck!), the author getting comedians to reveal their secrets (bad childhood?), and the mechanical comedian with its humble roboticist!

03/12/2013

Univ of Texas covers our performances! Thanks Jourden!! (Even though my dad went to A&M ;-]) http://www.dailytexanonline.com/life-and-arts/2013/03/11/electrical-engineer-builds-robot-that-delivers-comedy

Heather Knight spent her college years building robots.

03/09/2013

ROBOTS AT !!

"Comedy Tech" panel 3:30pm tmrw: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP6663

"Social Robots" NEXT stage talk 5pm Sunday: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_OE01919 — with Jason Denney.

03/06/2013

Data and I are on the cover of Wired UK's April edition!! What do we look more like we're about to do? Crack a joke or rob a spaceship??

03/06/2013

Shoutout to CMU Prof Illah Nourbakhsh and his new book ROBOT FUTURES: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/the-next-page-personal-robots-mans-new-best-friend-677697/

In 1977, I walked into the first run of "Star Wars" with my parents, not knowing what to expect. Two hours later, I was transformed, branded with images of C-3PO and R2-D2. This is how my love affair with robots started, and it is also how an entire generation of robotics researchers, about my age,…