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gosh aren't you shiny happy people hello robot fans we're here at the Science Museum in London to see the opening of the robots exhibition we spoke to curator Ben Russell the key robots I wanted undetermined you know I thought well actually what can i what can I get hold of we had you know we had to go out and rely on boring and new acquisitions and that sort of thing we thought we'd come straight on the humanoid robots we realized early on that it's the humanoids are most fascinating because they're so much like us so I thought let's go for those guys we have a lot of robots that come in and loan to us from around the world from Japan from America from other museums in the UK so for example with the Bose Museum a very kindly let's their silver swarm which is the most astonishing automata but with 1773 when you start doing exhibition you always have a sort of youíve sort of go who's got what things and how likely are they to give them to us I knew about the swamp is the most remarkable machine with it Wow and I thought they'll never lend that to us and the museum Toyota said no if don't not don't get so we thought we have a try and amazingly they said yes and amazingly actually a gratifyingly high number of the people out there with robots said yes when we ask them so it's a really it's a really unique collection of objects actually um but I'm really pleased with how it's worked out we sort of softly dodged the IOA question because a I can be a voice or abstract and intangible thing and we threw up said well yeah when you book railway tickets or your flight to your holidays that's that's basically AI and its software and what's more interesting from our point of view is is embodied intelligence so intelligence is okay but it's got to be in a vessel and actually what is that form actually research tends to be humanoid form but how does that affect the shaping of the intelligence within it now I think that's that that's really where we are in a way where we were sort of sort of small relatively small niche in the whole realm of robotics but but I think that's where the real challenges are is great but as soon as you get it into in a body and make it walk down some stairs it's not gonna work we said a robot is our mobile definition is a robot that is a machine that looks like like what behaves in a LifeFlight way and we didn't want to sort of stick up to the usual sort of sci-fi tropes of robots the enemy enslave us all and destroy the world but but have robots which are a bit more thought provoking than that and of course the interaction is one as much to think oh and if I mean the interaction itself is amazing but if that interesting could then talk spark a bit of interest people go away and think you know through what's the coming they're going to escape from the lab how does that work then I think we've done our job see well hopefully here is a lock and a shield kid you