Robotics Expert Breaks Down Robot Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

Chris Atkeson, a professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, watches a variety of scenes featuring robots from movies and television and breaks down how accurate their depictions really are. Would the Terminator actually have dialogue options? Are the "three laws" from I, Robot a real thing? Is it actually hard to erase a robot's memory (a la Westworld)?

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Robotics Expert Breaks Down Robot Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

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