Bots Take On The Bard

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Robots were cast in a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream thanks to a collaboration between the theater department and the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University. Computer science grad student Kevin Pratt talks about the ultra high-tech production and why it's helpful for scientists to put robots on the stage. En Español. Footage and photos courtesy of Kevin Pratt and Texas A&M University Viewed 5760 times.

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