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The Astroboy age

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Production
2008, France
Original language
Japanese
Running time
00:53:00
Genre
documentary
Topic
future
Directed by
Marc Caro
Written by
Etienne Barral
Produced by
Les Films d'ici, NHK
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According to the Japanese research institute, Seed Planning, by 2015, 13 million robot assistants will be part of Japanese homes to cheer up, comfort and possibly take care of their owners.

This documentary blends clips from Japanese cartoons, interviews with fiction writers, sociologists, robotics specialists and footage shot in the labs where humanoid robots are designed in order to explain why and how the Japanese are getting ready to cohabit with robots… following in the footsteps of Astroboy…

Pariscience

Selected at Pariscience 2009
See the showing : Sunday 11th October 2009 from 15h30 to 17h00