The National Evening of Science on Screen® this year is something very different. Paul Verhoeven’s ROBOCOP is, in addition to being a violent action film, a fantastic social satire about command and control, with an emphasis on automated systems of policing. Lo and behold, the world is colliding with what had seemed an outlandish scenario. We will be joined by Dr. Roberto Martin-Martin (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin) for a post-screening discussion about the implications of robotics, both mechanical and ethical.

ABOUT DR. ROBERTO MARTIN-MARTIN
Dr. Roberto Martin-Martin explores the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. In his research, he integrates physical and optimal interactions with the environment as part of novel perception and learning procedures. This provides robots new versatile and robust skills to perform tasks in human unstructured environments like homes. He worked as Postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab with Fei-Fei Li and Silvio Savarese. Dr. Martin-Martin received his Ph.D. and master’s degree from Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) working with Professor Oliver Brock, and his BSc. degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

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