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The word,"Robot",was coined by
Capek,a Czech writer, who was the first to use it. Since the coinage
of the word,the robot has been recognized in the Western world as
a thing of a form similar to that of a human being which substitutes
for that human being as manpower. The robot has also been positioned
as an existence which, having no will of its own, moves under the
control of something else. From these viewpoints, the important thing
would be how efficiently the human being is to tackle simple work
by obeying orders. This led to the realization after the industrial
revolution of the affluent society of mass production/mass consumption.
From the worker's viewpoint, room for originality/ingenuity has been
reduced: it could be said that it has been naturally said that the
existence of robots alienates human beings.
In today's robot engineering, however, a situation has been produced
which cannot be explained simply from the above viewpoints. In order
to cause the "function as an action",as the functions which the robot
is required to have, to work smoothly, it is not only how to solve
the problem off how simply to communicate information from human beings
that is needed: also required is that the robot itself "senses"and"Judges"
behavioral patterns of human beings and, with its "artificial intelligence",
acts as they wish. It can be said that now, the robot is no longer
a mere passive existence: it has been being transformed into an existence
that communicates information with human beings for itself.
In advancing this further forward, this exhibition is positioned as
an opportunity to consider the robot on the assumption of intercommunication
of information between human beings and the robot, not stopping at
one-way communication from human beings.In Japan, as is symbolized
in the worlds of famous animations, people have traditionally feltrobots
familiar as their neighbors who, having their own will and feelings,
can exchange words with them or cause their children's dreams to come
true. Here, robots have been thought of as something like their friends
that have the same eyes as their own, without being felt as anything
pitted against human beings. On such assumption also, this exhibition
surveys the history of robots rom their genesis up to this day from
the viewpoints of human history, culture and art and, in its displays
and a series of activities in its symposiums and workshops, considers
a new image of advanced/evolved robots. ICC hopes that its visitors
will be able to experience even if partially, the new society of the
21st century that might be materialized through the coexistence of
human beings and robots.
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Jan.29 (Friday) - Mar.22 (Monday),1999 [Finished]
Gallery A, D, Theater
First Symposium [Evolving Robots]
