Wired News:: Robots: It's an Art Thing
By Brad King
2:00 a.m. Nov. 12, 2001 PST
Eighty years after they were first introduced to the world, robots and humans now exist side by side. The symbiotic relationship between the two has inspired a new generation of art -- and scientific research -- that examines where people end and machines begin.
As technology continues to permeate life, artistic inspiration has started to come from strange places.
Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned the lamb Dolly at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, inspired San Francisco filmmaker Jeremy Solterbeck's short Moving Illustrations of Machines.
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