Robotics and Art
Unit 3: Robotics and Art Pattriana Perry Johann Gutenberg printing press Assembly line Professor Vesna speaks of how the era robotics came about in her lecture "Robotics pt.1". The origin story started with Johann Gutenberg's revolutionary printing press and was followed by assembly lines like the ones Tom Ford created in the auto industry. The term robots came from the word "robota" which means work, as stated in professor Vesna's lecture "Robotics pt.2". Robots and assembly lines are replacing humans in the workforce for multiple reasons. Robots cannot be overworked, they do not require a salary, and they work faster and more efficiently than their human counterparts. Walter Benjamin talks about the benefits of robots in terms of industrialization. One point he brings up is that"the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility" (page 2). In other words, the creation of print and press is an art ...
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