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The research provides a design-driven overview of the fifty main humanoid robots that have made their appearance in science fiction movies from 1915 to 2018. The study provides a comparison of the principal aesthetic and interaction features in relation to what kind of character was performed and in what kind of movie it appears.
As a result, the research defines a user-centered taxonomy of humanoid robotics and provides a graphical display of the data about the aesthetic and interaction features of the analyzed robots.
Attribution of paragraphs. 1: Claudia Porfirione. 2,5: Francesco burlando 3,4: Annapaola Vacanti. Work carried out under the supervision of Niccolò Casiddu
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In the movies which presented more than one robot, the most representative characters were chosen.
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Casiddu, N., Porfirione, C., Burlando, F., Vacanti, A. (2021). A Century of Humanoid Robotics in Cinema: A Design-Driven Review. In: Zallio, M., Raymundo Ibañez, C., Hernandez, J.H. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Unmanned Systems and Cybersecurity. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79997-7_13
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