March 24, 2006
Robot Actors Take to the Stage
If robots become self-aware and rise up against their human creators, what kind of art will they like? Will some of them become actors, entertaining their metallic friends and exploring their inner robot?
Those are some of the unusual questions explored in Heddatron, a recent off-off-Broadway play in which half the characters were portrayed by robots.
Apparently, killer robots of the future will be partial to the work of Henrik Ibsen, the 19th-century Norwegian playwright. In
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