Robotics researcher discusses robot evolution
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Concha Monje is a researcher in the Robotics Lab of the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). There, she is one of the people in charge of TEO, a 60-kilo humanoid robot that is able to walk and manipulate a variety of objects. The author of nearly one hundred scientific articles, she has now taken her knowledge to the world of movies, working as a science consultant for the film Autómata, starring and produced by Antonio Banderas and directed by Gabe Ibáñez. This science fiction movie explores a future in which humanoid robots develop an awareness of their own.