{"653881":{"#nid":"653881","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Who Killed the Robot Dog?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJay Telotte, professor emeritus in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in \u0026quot;Who Killed the Robot Dog?\u0026quot; published Dec. 14, 2021, in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETelotte, a film scholar with a particular interest in how robots and other technologies have been portrayed in film and animation,\u0026nbsp;discussed the history of robot pets going back to a 1927 Disney cartoon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X-gyGF-qtGE\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Mechanical Cow\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;imagines a robot bovine on wheels with a broom for a tail skating around delivering milk to animal friends. The worst that could happen is your mechanical farm could go haywire, as in the 1930s cartoon\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8m9NJCT8dD4\u0026amp;t=338s\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Technoracket,\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;but even then robot animals presented no real threat to their biological counterparts. \u0026ldquo;In fact, many of the \u0026lsquo;animaloid\u0026rsquo; visions in movies and TV over the years have been in cartoons and comic narratives,\u0026rdquo; says Telotte, where \u0026ldquo;the laughter they generate is typically assuring us that they are not really dangerous.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-12-21 18:53:30","changed_gmt":"2021-12-21 19:32:09","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/robot-dog-artificial-intelligence-history\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"283491":{"id":"283491","type":"image","title":"Jay Telotte","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894976","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:36","alt":"Jay Telotte","file":{"fid":"198983","name":"img_42.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_42_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_42_0.jpg?itok=fl4Oden6"}}},"media_ids":["283491"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}