- Former NASA roboticist Ayanna Howard charges 11 robots from motion pictures and tv for realism.
- Howard discusses the mechanical swimsuit from “Iron Man” and Doc Ock’s arms from “Spider-Man 2.”
- She additionally analyzes the design of R2-D2 from “Star Wars” and Optimus Prime from “Transformers.”
Former NASA roboticist Ayanna Howard charges 11 robots from motion pictures and tv for realism.
She discusses the accuracy of “Iron Man” (2008), starring Robert Downey Jr.; “Spider-Man 2” (2004), that includes Alfred Molina; “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991), with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and “Transformers” (2007). She additionally feedback on “I, Robotic” (2004), with Will Smith; Baymax from “Large Hero 6” (2014); Ava from “Ex Machina” (2014); and “Minority Report” (2002), starring Tom Cruise. Howard analyzes “Black Mirror” S4E5 (2017), “Westworld” S1E1 (2016), TARS from “Interstellar” (2014), and R2-D2 and C-3PO from “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (1977).
Howard is the dean of engineering at The Ohio State College. She was a robotics researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was the chair of interactive computing at Georgia Tech.
