A clip from: MindshareLA Presents All Hail, Our Robotic Friends! August 3rd 2019 at Cross Campus in Downtown Los Angeles Andrew Mcgregor – Filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion and entrepreneur.
The Tiziano Project was my brainchild not-for-profit that used to bring journalism trainers into developing countries to teach people living there basic journalism skills. We encouraged our students to become reporters and a few contributed to news sources such as the Associated Press and CNN and others gained new careers from their media training all while helping share stories from a grassroots level. In addition to the success of our incredible students we received many awards including the Online Journalism Award for Community Collaboration and the SXSW Interactive award for Activism. In this TEDx talk I gave at the University of Southern California I discuss our work and how and why we did what we did.
Here I discuss developing robots that help solve humanitarian problems through innovative cooperation between organizations, collaborative STEAM education, and human rights advocacy. Piper, Symbiotics first robot, began life as a playful artist’s rendition. But before long Piper had attracted enough interest allowing him to burst off the page, and into our physical world…
In this TEDx talk I discuss how bionic rats and humans are partnering to find land mines by taking the audience through a journey of the evolution of an idea that required me to see through barriers in journalism, filmmaking, and robotics and ultimately led to achieving a reality in which landmine-sniffing rats adorned with bionic technology are able to better work with humans to detect land mines.
Talk about teaching citizen journalism across countries and cultures.
Creative talk about finding real-life superheroes embedded in a description of humanitarian philosophy.