Marek A. Perkowski, theatre director.

PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE.

1. WHAT IS PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE?

Portland Cyber Theatre is a synergistic initiative to build the first complete interactive theatre of humanoid robots. The goal is to involve people of all ages and cultures to contribute to the art and science of building a robot theatre of XXI-st Century. We want to understand human robot interaction by building a comprehensive theatre of interactive robots. So far, there is no such theatre in the world. The theatre is also a testbed of new robotic, software, machine learning, and other technologies.

2. WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITIES OF PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE?

The activities of the theatre are building robots and a robotized stage, writing software and investigating learning, interaction and other modern theories. This is done while preparing two performances: "Hahoe" - traditional korean mask theatre, and "The Faithful Robot" by Stanislaw Lem.

3. WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE ACTIVITIES OF PORTLAND CYBER THEATRE?

The activities of the theatre are open to everybody. You can come to PSU, or contribute your ideas through internet. Writers, animators, robot designers, AI-theorist and software engineers are welcome. There are several activities where you can learn about robot theatre and contribute to our work. We have robot camps for high school students, the next will be the Summer of 2004. There are undergraduate and graduate classes on Intelligent Robotics. Robotics and Automation Society of PSU is a student organization interested in building robots. We have design meetings with PARTS (Portland Area Robotics Society) members. Finally, the research seminars for graduate students (especially the thesis students who work with Marek Perkowski) are a place to discuss ideas related to implementing our robots.

4. ACTIVITIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

  1. The summer camp for 2004 starts on June 25, FAB 70, at 9 a.m., as seen on the main webpage of Marek Perkowski. The lab is always open Fridays and Saturdays 9 am - 1 pm and PARTS members or PSU students are welcome. Other interested persons should contact Jacob Biamonte or Martin Lukac.
  2. The information how to build the robot head based on "Hahoe technology" - wooden mask robots can be found here.
  3. The information how to build the robot head based on "latex face technology" with emotional face mimique, that is used on our recent other robots, can be found here.