Japan day 8 and 9: Musashi University and Tama University

Day 7 was spent in and around the hotel, preparing a presentation about robots and our reactions to the IREX exhibition. This is a mascot we made for our presentation. She's an assistant/companion robot called Kimagurena or Kima-chan for short. She's a temperamental robot, representing how robots could feel emotions. Kima-chan's head turns to show a happy and angry face.

For our presentation for Musashi University in Toyotamakami on day 8 we talked about service and assistance robots and discussed what will happen when technological advances start taking away jobs. We also talked about the development of artificial intelligence and how if robots start to actually feel emotions, how long will it be before they are given certain rights previously reserved for humans.

On day 9 (today) we went to Tama University in Hijirigaoka. At the university we watched animations by Japanese students. I was blown away by how detailed and creative the animations were. The last animation we watched was a 3D animation about the afterlife and the visuals were incredible.