The erotic Galatea of Pygmalion (Greek mythology), the future Eve (de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam), the Golem of clay (Jewish mythology), the patched body of Frankenstein’s monster (Mary ShelleyMary Shelley): all these human-made creatures have one thing in common, that of fueling fascination and fear. Zoom on the robotsrobots et avatarsavatars in this file.
In this file, we do not claim to address the whole history of robotics, trends and amazing perspectives of robots.
Jean-Claude Heudin, director of the IIM (Institute of Internet and Multimedia), talks to us regarding his vision of transhumanism, the future of artificial intelligence and robots during this series of interviews brought together in the form of a playlist. . © Futura
Robots and avatars, these virtual creatures
We will focus on certain aspects of creatures androidsandroids and more specifically virtual creatures, i.e. those that evolve in the memory of a computercomputer.
But before that, we are going to propose a typology of what we call “robots”, which will allow us to better understand the diversity of genres and to place virtual creatures more precisely in this context.
