Robotics Expert Breaks Down Movie Robots

[Caleb] Hi, I'm Caleb.

Hello, Caleb.

Oooo, look at that.

This movie, the robot itself, doesn't look realistic.

It's cool, it's sexy,

I mean that's the whole point of the movie.

There's a lot of parts that are transparent... why?

I don't see any need for doing that.

Personally, this is my personal opinion,

I don't think we'll have robots being self-aware

or feel emotions like the movie,

Ava in this movie, any time soon.

Surprise me.

Ohhhhh, Wall-E!

So this is the future earth and Wall-E's mission is to

clean up, compact and organize all the trash.

If I had to design a robot that needs to do that,

I might design something that looks exactly like Wall-E.

The head of Wall-E looks like

a real existing sensor mount head.

Now, if I become really, really picky,

because the inside cavity is used for gathering, compacting,

it doesn't really have a lot of volume

to put all the power and computing and all the sensors.

So if we had to really make a real Wall-E

it needs to be a little bigger.

We can make something that's totally operated remote control

but a robot to really look around, identify, figure out

what's trash, what's not, how to bring it together

and all this details, AI, that's still...

We don't have it, we're still working on

those kinds of problems right now.

Oh, this is Terminator. (laughs)

[Man In Bar] Oooooo.

[Dr. Hong] Uh oh, he's in big trouble.

(bearded man screams)

Now that doesn't happen with our robots.

If I imagine a humanoid robot in the future

that can actually do all this stuff,

the design might actually look something like

the endoskeleton of the Terminator.

If you look at the design, it's actually very convincing.

You see all the joints and the actuators.

Now, some things if I want to be really picky,

the movie shows that the interface of what the robot

actually sees, I don't think that's really necessary,

you know, the robot doesn't need that.

(electronic chirp)

Establish a security code for

[Dr. Hong] Oh, I know.

access to all functions previously transferred to Bridge.

Data!

The ultimate, the ultimate, ultimate robot,

you know, ideal robot probably is Data,

that's our ultimate goal.

It's smart, it moves like us, it looks like us.

Data really makes us think what it is to be human

and that's an important question we should all ponder about.

You shut me out.

You think I care?

[Dr. Hong] Oh this is Ultron.

You take away my world.

I take away yours.

I don't know what to say.

This is probably among all the robots,

this is the most science fiction fiction.

Mind controlling and shoots out rays from his sensors.

Okay, sensors is for gathering information,

but his sensors shoots out stuff.

Okay, interesting. (laughs)

Maybe we should not call him a robot,

maybe call him God. (laughs)

Oh, that's it.