# Guy Hoffman Transience, Replication, And The Paradox Of Social Robotics Complete

- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Department: Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Year: 2019
- Level: Undergraduate
- Subjects: Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/20191104guyhoffmantransiencereplicationandtheparadoxofsocialroboticscomplete)
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Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics

with Guy Hoffman Robotics Researcher, Cornell University

An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), presented with Berkeley Arts + Design as part of Arts + Design Mondays.

As we continue to develop social robots designed for connectedness, we struggle with paradoxes related to authenticity, transience, and replication. In this talk, I will attempt to link together 15 years of experience designing social robots with 100-year-old texts on transience, replication, and the fear of dying. Can there be meaningful relationships with robots who do not suffer natural decay? What would our families look like if we all choose to buy identical robotic family members? Could hand-crafted robotics offer a relief from the mass-replication of the robot’s physical body and thus also from the mass-customization of social experiences?

About Guy Hoffman

Dr. Guy Hoffman is an Assistant Professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya and co-director of the IDC Media Innovation Lab. Hoffman holds a Ph.D from MIT in the field of human-robot interaction. He heads the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship (HRC2) group, studying the algorithms, interaction schema, and designs enabling close interactions between people and personal robots in the workplace and at home. Among others, Hoffman developed the world’s first human-robot joint theater performance, and the first real-time improvising human-robot Jazz duet. His research papers won several top academic awards, including Best Paper awards at robotics conferences in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018, and 2019. His TEDx talk is one of the most viewed online talks on robotics, watched more than 3 million times.

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## Lectures

1. [2019-11-04 Guy Hoffman Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics - Complete](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ia/20191104guyhoffmantransiencereplicationandtheparadoxofsocialroboticscomplete/a8f3bf2823f2), 1 h 18 min (Video)