Video: Beyond Human
This series explores a brave new world in which people are becoming more like machines and machines more like people. This time of tremendous technological change and even smaller and more powerful computer chips fuels some fantastic new visions about the future.
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Beyond Human | Robot I Will Crush You | PBS
Destruction and mayhem at the hands and jaws of a monster robot. 01:32
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Beyond Human | The Invasion of the Inhuman | PBS
Science fiction has returned again and again to the merger of man and machine, the Cyborg, with fascination and fear. 09:41
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Beyond Human | The Age of Androids | PBS
Imagine a day when machines walk among us, expressing thoughts, emotions, demanding their rights. Today, we are breathing intelligence, even life, into creatures of silicon and steel, and a whole... 09:58
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Beyond Human | Designing Humanoids | PBS
To build a humanoid that can function in our world is a bold challenge being taken up by isolated labs around the world. Researchers are infusing robots with abilities ranging from grasping and... 07:25
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Beyond Human | Can a Robot be a Person? | PBS
As robots begin to move among us, how will we regard them? as property like automobiles, or as individuals with rights and responsibilities of their own? Can a thing become part of human society?... 05:23
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Beyond Human | The Cyborg Revolution | PBS
Over the centuries, scientists speculated that we could tap into the body's electrical system to restore lost functions or enhance our powers? like machines. It took modern electronics to show us how. 09:58
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Beyond Human | Erasing the Line Between Man and Machine | PBS
We are beginning to shape a tomorrow in which robots will walk and work among us. As they realize their own potential, how long before they cast us aside? 09:59
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Beyond Human | The Cyborg Mind | PBS
As we steadily merge with our technological inventions, the focus is not superbodies or replacement parts. Instead it's the invention of devices that enhance our senses and minds, and knit us... 09:02
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Beyond Human | Robot Soccer | PBS
To promote the rapid evolution of robots, one audacious group of researchers decided to start a worldwide robotic soccer competition. How soon before they challenge humans? Fifty years? say the... 07:27
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Beyond Human | Emotion Machines | PBS
If tomorrow's robots are going to share our world, they will have to have something extra--an emotional and psychological dimension to help them communicate and respond in ways people can understand. 03:43
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