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EngTalk South Asia - Engineering a Digital Future

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  • Duration: 47 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Aug 2021

Abstract

Explore some of the exciting technologies that just a few decades ago, could only be found in the pages of science fiction stories, but are now very much part of our everyday lives. As the pace of technological change increases, which of today’s blue-sky inventions will find their way into common use?

You’ll hear about some of the newest developments and ways of thinking that are putting digital technologies at the centre of our lives; including creating and controlling avatars in a virtual world, technology as an equaliser, responsible AI for social empowerment, bringing about a hyper digital and contactless world, and how new technologies are changing the entertainment industry.

This event is hosted by IET South Asia as part of the IET@150 celebrations. In our anniversary year, we have been looking at engineering difference makers and how they are changing the world – you will certainly hear from some of them here!

Keywords:
  • EngTalk
  • Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
  • Reality is catching up to science fiction
  • engineering difference makers
  • geminoid

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  • Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro

    Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro

    Osaka University

    Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro is Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan. His work concentrates developing robots which are as similar as possible to a live human being, and thinks it may eventually be possible to build an android that is indistinguishable from a human.He is the creator of ERICA, an autonomous conversational android who works as a receptionist at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto. She can speak to a new visitor for up to 10 minutes, and has 150 conversation topics to pick from. In 2021, it was announced that she would star in an upcoming science fiction movie, “b”.Ishiguro has also made an android that resembles him, called the Geminoid, that he uses to teach his classes at Osaka University, and likes to scare his students by making it perform human-like movements like blinking, “breathing” and fidgeting with his hands.Read more: “Reality is catching up to science fiction” https://www.goethe.de/prj/k40/en/fil/ish.html
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