Opening this month at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine is a sweeping survey of robotic technologies. Today’s robots come in unexpected forms, warns curator Amelie Klein in this edited excerpt from the show’s catalogue, so designers must prepare themselves for the ramifications.
The appearance of the robot in our everyday lives is unavoidable—its visible appearance, that is, for in fact robots have been lurking in parts of washing machines, automobiles, and automatic cash dispensers for decades. Of course, such creatures will not take the form that most of us have come to expect. Karel Äapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., which popularized the term, described a mechanical working class—in other words, a class that has been dehumanized and hence robbed of its dignity—that rises up against its masters before revealing itself to be the morally and ethically superior species. Äapek, a staunch anti-fascist, was engaging in a piece of social criticism that has been expressed time and again: the robot that serves us—and the robot that destroys us.
Thus, popular culture has influenced our expectations regarding robots for almost a hundred years. They should be humanoid in form—i.e., look like us—and they should think, communicate, and move as we do. Our fascination with these machines has reached the world’s robotics laboratories, where researchers are eagerly working on creating humanoid robots.
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