RFF2018
The 8th Annual Robot Film Festival was held on July 14, 2018 at the McMenamins Mission Theater in Portland, OR. The theme was Vintage Arcade Revival.
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Schedule: Saturday, July 14, 2018
3:30
Doors
4:00
Festival Intro
Heather Knight, Professor, Oregon State University
Home Robots from the 1980s to Today (Evan Ackerman, IEEE Automation)
4:15
Headliner: The Nostalgist
Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Q&A w/ Marek Michalowski of BeatBots
4:45
Short Film Program
Session 1: Weird Science
Session 2: Short Circuit
Session 3: Batteries Not Included
6:30
Cocktail Party, Demos, & Red Carpet
Janky Arcade
Beach-Ball ThrowBot
Sheldon Robot
Hula-Dancing Art Bots
Rubix-Cube-Solving Robot
Silent Dance Party
Cocktails based on 1980s robot films
8:30
Botskers Awards Ceremony
ChairBots: I Want to Dance With Somebody
Ecstatic Robots (Gabriel Surley)
Comedic Award Ceremony (Ginger the Robot, Heather Knight, Andrew MacGregor)