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Where the Robot Things Are by Andrew McGregor

“Where the Robot Things Are” is a love story between a rat and a robot who bond after they are sent to find a path through a landmine field to save a group of people who have gone mad after becoming trapped there and running out of water.

Trailer & Other Media

“Where the Robot Things Are” TRAILER

The film was created with the philosophy in mind of utilizing emerging and existing technologies in the story to inspire engineering minds to work on solutions to the plight of land mines that are a persistent and lethal threat to untold millions of civilians around the world.

A clip of the film’s award-winning animation. Congratulations to Animation Director Stephen Chiodo and the team!

In the process of making the movie, the director partnered up with prominent roboticists and the moral vision of the technology (enabling a land mine-sniffing rat to be able to communicate to a human when it finds a land mine).

We’re happy to announce that the technology is now an open-source project.

IN THE NEWS

Interview with Director Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor during an audience Q&A after the European premiere of ‘Where the Robot Things Are’ (French title: LÀ OÙ VIVENT LES ROBOTS SAUVAGES).

This movie and the story of the movie have already inspired the creation of humanitarian technology projects and organizations to help educate and engage people in the plight of landmines while working on technology to directly assist landmine removal efforts.

The film was featured in this TEDx talk by writer/director Andrew McGregor.
Prototype technology inspired by the ethos of the movie was featured on the popular YouTube “Philip DeFranco” show amassing about 225,000 views

RECENT UPDATE: Local high school students in the Los Angeles area are doing internships focused on training rats to communicate to humans while wearing a non-invasive harness to bionically enable them to communicate to humans!