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Myon - A Robot Hits the Stage, Episode 3

July 28, 2014

The humanoid robot Myon will be playing a leading role in "My Square Lady" at one of Berlin's opera houses, the Komische Oper. For Manfred Hild, the neurobotics specialist who built Myon, it's an experiment.

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13.04.2014 Projekt Zukunft Myon

Myon will have to respond to human emotions, express them and evoke them from human beings. If all goes well, the 1.25-meter-tall robot will be appearing on stage at the Komische Oper later in the 2014/2015 season. Until then, he has a lot of work ahead of him. He'll have to learn the staging by himself. It won't be programmed into him. This time we went along to a rehearsal. The scientists want to test and improve capacities on stage that can't be tested in a laboratory, for instance, Myon's directional hearing. TOMORROW TODAY is following Myon's career in a series of reports.