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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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!