Robotics Expert Rates 11 Robots from Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Former NASA roboticist Ayanna Howard rates 11 robots from movies and television for realism.

She discusses the accuracy of "Iron Man" (2008), starring Robert Downey Jr.; "Spider-Man 2" (2004), featuring Alfred Molina; "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and "Transformers" (2007). She also comments on "I, Robot" (2004), with Will Smith; Baymax from "Big Hero 6" (2014); Ava from "Ex Machina" (2014); and "Minority Report" (2002), starring Tom Cruise. Howard analyzes "Black Mirror" S4E5 (2017), "Westworld" S1E1 (2016), TARS from "Interstellar" (2014), and R2-D2 and C-3PO from "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977).

Howard is the dean of engineering at The Ohio State University. She was a robotics researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was the chair of interactive computing at Georgia Tech.

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[schematherapy]

This is a great example of an extremely clear explanation of what's possible in robotics today for the everyday viewer. She's a wonderful, gifted teacher and should make more videos like this on a variety of scientific topics.

[couldbericher]

It's amazing how she finds something unique, scientific and interesting to talk about for each scene - like the cuteness factor for R2-D2 and versatility for the interstellar robot. I'd rate the intelligence of this episode a 10/10.

[aactve]

The way she smiles while watching the star wars bit is so heartwarming :)

[addstrat]

"The more versatile you are the more likely you'll have failures" That hit me and it hurt.

[cilirhammersteel]

I love how she says we don't have the technology "yet" this is a big distinction, because it shows that we know we can do it we're just not technologically advanced enough now to pull these off, but we will one day.

[crashmancer]

To Asimov’s credit, the issue of the First Law being in conflict when saving one person means harming another is the basis for a few of his stories - he came up with them because it was interesting to look at where they broke down.

Of course the harder part is a robot even knowing when something it does would hurt a human. Right now they can barely identify a human being at all.

[Tekdruid]

14:20 I think one of Asimov's novels had a robot practically commit suicide because of conflicting orders that would both "harm" a human in one way or another (IIRC it was different people ordering the robot to either keep or reveal some secret). In another novel, there was a theme about robots harming the entire _humanity_ as a whole without causing harm to any _individual_ human per se.

[feanedhell]

In asimov’s defense, a lot of his stories are about how the three laws work in reality and their complexity.

[jamesstevens]

I’ve never been one to idolise people, but I could make an exception for her.
As a retired IT service technician who spends his days tinkering with electronics and “mechatronics”, I admire her a great deal!

[mickeymouse]

Both Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man are some of my favorite superhero movies be of how real the science is it nice to know experts agree as well

[MrGuitaristgamer]

Only three movie clips in and I love this expert. So much better than the ones who don't enjoy movies for reasons related to their profession. She's simply explaining what exists and what's to come in the future and never fully bashes the movie because she understands it's for entertainment

[griffionwyvrus]

The only issue stopping people from building an iron man suit is the power source, Tony's Arc reactor is a miniature nuclear power plant with the power to light a whole city.

[Maazzzo]

Ayanna is really interesting, please bring her back.

[clockworkkirlia]

The sheer expertise all across the field is simply wonderful to witness. And complexly wonderful. It's wonderful. I love academics being enthusiastic about the many and varied applications of their field, particularly in fields wherein such wildly disparate themes such as "cuteness" and "actuation" are vital components.

[phoqueme]

Regarding the 3 laws... The probabilities between survivors come into play. In the I Robot movie, they even added a pretty good scene explaining this concept when Will Smith emotionally xplained to the doctor how the android who saved him instead of the little girl did it based on logic and survival probability instead of choosing between an adult and a child, which to an android wouldn't make sense since it's mainly emotional. So did the android violate the First Law because he couldn't save both, or did he not because he did save at least one? Food for thought

[anonymousontheinternet]

When the Otto Octavius clip from Spiderman played, and she mentioned, "The technology was possible, not on the order of humans but small animals", and the clip of the mouse showed, I spaced out for a bit and started imagining a cyborg mouse origin story. I imagined they gave a mouse some form of advanced robotic appendages and then it escapes the lab to someone's house. The homeowner discovers their house is rodent infested and tries to catch it, but gets shocked to see a robot-abled mouse thwarting all their efforts. Maybe they try a mouse trap and come back to the trap completely wrecked and in pieces.

[cjparkeffaking]

She isn't just smart, but very down to earth and relatable. Probably a very good teach her. But man, she gave some low scores lol

[lifjyruss]

I would enjoy watching her look at Ghost in the shell, with all it's philosophical looks into the psyche of an ai and the acquisition of a soul or "ghost" through the ability to actively learn and begin to ponder the meaning of existence.

[fishfood]

She knows her stuff and I like how she explains everything in simple turms

[mocmonster]

I've never seen someone so happy while giving a 1/10 before 😄