This event has finished Took place on: Friday, 31st Mar 2017

£22

Our perception of robots has been formed as much by art as it has by science, and perhaps no medium has been more influential than film in shaping and reflecting our fears, anxieties, hopes and dreams about our cybernetic counterparts.

This double bill presents arguably the two most iconic robots in screen history, beginning with James Cameron’s original 1984 thriller The Terminator, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the time-travelling robot assassin stalking the streets of downtown LA. The second film in the double bill is Paul Verhoeven’s biting 1987 satirical sci-fi classic RoboCop. Set in a dystopian future Detroit, RoboCop tells the story of a police officer killed in the line of duty, brought back to life as a chrome-plated, indestructible, cyborg crime-fighting machine.

This screening event will be introduced by Dr Emine Yilmaz, Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and Associate Professor at UCL’s Department of Computer Science, who will examine the question ‘Could Skynet come true?’

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2017-03-31 2017-03-31 Europe/London Movies and Mechanoids Double Bill: The Terminator and Robocop Watch the two cult sci-fi movies on a large IMAX screen. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2017/03/31/movies-and-mechanoids-double-bill-the-terminator-and-robocop-124851 Science Museum,Exhibition Road, London, London,