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Machines with Minds (2003)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of Professor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham), Dr Amanda Sharkey (University of Sheffield), and Professor Igor Aleksander (Imperial College)...

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Rockets and Robots

Date released

26 Feb 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/17

NoS ID

100643

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

A German pick-a-back plane is shot up by tracer shells from our planes. The pick-a-back consists of a JU 88 carrying a FW 190 on its back. The FW 190 controls the flight and the idea is to use the...

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Britain’s Secret Engineers (2010)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

If you need to build a ‘top-secret’ piece of equipment in the UK, there’s one place many people choose to go: defence contractor QinetiQ. This documentary follows workers at this leading British...

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Artificial Life, Virtual Reality and Real Robots (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL, SECAM, NTSC). col. 2 x 90 min., 1996 sale: 40 Ecu (inclusive) each part

Discussions focusing on computer science, mechanical and electrical engineering. 1.1: Concepts - Fractals: relations between chaos and fractals, reaturing Benoit Mandelbrot. Discusses self-similarity with...

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Sensing: Robot Rover

Date released

1978

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

225

NoS ID

325943

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Senses, for tasting; touching; seeing. Senses for survival. This programme looks at the significance of our new understanding of sense mechanisms - in man, animal and machine. The mobile robots...

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Star Wars Makes Cinema History

Date released

29 Jan 1978

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2539

NoS ID

031096

Story no

2 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Star Wars. DESCRIPTION: The much publicised and long-awaited film Star Wars opens in London with queues outside two West End cinemas. At the Science Museum costumes, vehicles and...

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Plug & Pray (2011)

Director

Jens Schanzer

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 91 minutes), 99 euros

A documentary film about the promise, problems and ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics. Computer experts around the world, like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro, strive towards the...

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Making Cars: From Workshop to Robots (1983 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

In two parts. Relates the story of the factories at Cowley through the words, pictures and momentos of the people who work or there or used to work there from 1915 to the 1980s.

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Fabric Handling (1985 Video)

Director

Michael Bowen

Producer

Michael Bowen

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 8 min.

Shows a Puma robot in use in garment manufacture, separating ply from a machine cut stack, picking up and orientating an irregular motif which is then fused to the cloth at another work station.

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Ophelia (2006 Television)

aka: Someone Like You, Ophelia Anata Ni Nita Dareka

Series

Ergo Proxy

Director

Shuko Murase

A science fiction suspense anime television series set in a future where humans and AutoReiv androids coexist peacefully until a virus gives the robots self-awareness, causing them to commit a series of...

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