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A Century of Humanoid Robotics in Cinema: A Design-Driven Review

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Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Unmanned Systems and Cybersecurity (AHFE 2021)

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The research provides a design-driven overview of the fifty main humanoid robots that have made their appearance in science fiction movies from 1915 to 2018. The study provides a comparison of the principal aesthetic and interaction features in relation to what kind of character was performed and in what kind of movie it appears.

As a result, the research defines a user-centered taxonomy of humanoid robotics and provides a graphical display of the data about the aesthetic and interaction features of the analyzed robots.

Attribution of paragraphs. 1: Claudia Porfirione. 2,5: Francesco burlando 3,4: Annapaola Vacanti. Work carried out under the supervision of Niccolò Casiddu

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    In the movies which presented more than one robot, the most representative characters were chosen.

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  1. Dipartimento Architettura e Design, Università degli Studi di Genova, Stradone Sant’Agostino 37, 16123, Genova, GE, Italy

    Niccolò Casiddu, Claudia Porfirione, Francesco Burlando & Annapaola Vacanti

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Correspondence to Francesco Burlando .

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Matteo Zallio

  2. Department of Engineering, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Peru

    Carlos Raymundo Ibañez

  3. Universidad de Guayaquil, Quayaquil, Ecuador

    Jesus Hechavarria Hernandez

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Casiddu, N., Porfirione, C., Burlando, F., Vacanti, A. (2021). A Century of Humanoid Robotics in Cinema: A Design-Driven Review. In: Zallio, M., Raymundo Ibañez, C., Hernandez, J.H. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Unmanned Systems and Cybersecurity. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79997-7_13

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