Hosted by Kathy Campbell and Alex Cox.
Roboism is a show mostly about robots. We are exploring how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital assistants are affecting our culture. Come explore the humanity behind the bots that are quickly becoming a part of every day life.
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#27: How to Kiss Mr. Washington
February 18th, 2019 · 31 minutes
Alex and Savannah get into robot researchers, robot grifters, and how it’s not great to make love to your money.
#26: More R2D2, Less Roomba
December 11th, 2018 · 24 minutes
This week, Alex and Savannah give you a blast from the past from their interview with roboticist Adrian Choy, who leads the engineering team at the Museum of Science and Industry's Robot Revolution exhibit.
#25: The Apple Factories Are Still Gonna Exist
November 27th, 2018 · 46 minutes
This week Alex talks to guest host Trin Garritano about the possibilities fora solarpunk future!
#24: All These Metaphors Fall Apart
November 6th, 2018 · 33 minutes
Alex brings her friend Vector into the studio to see if Savannah will save them from an grease fire.
#23: You Need to Oil Its Tail
October 23rd, 2018 · 39 minutes
This week, Alex grills Savannah on her ability to anthropomorphize robots. Is she a monster? Let's find out!
#22: Angry Most of the Time
October 16th, 2018 · 61 minutes
This week, Savannah and Alex talk about focus and attention while not being able to focus on the topic of attention. The delve into internalized mysogyny, phantom taps, capitalism, and Animal Crossing. It ends up be cohesive. They promise.
#21: It Came Out of Me Like a Tapeworm
August 22nd, 2018 · 48 minutes
This week, Alex and Savannah are joined by writer and game designer Karlee Esmailli about her most recent Kickstarter campaign, immigrant women in tech, and whether or not virtual reality will embrace the female gaze.
#20: Boosty Scoot
August 20th, 2018 · 42 minutes
This week Savannah and Alex are joined by special guest Matthew Cassinelli to talk more about electric scoot scoots, skateboards, bikes, and various municipal infrastructure problems (because that's the show now, apparently).
#19: I Bought My iPad a Boyfriend
July 31st, 2018 · 35 minutes
This week, Alex is joined by special guest Rosemary Orchard to talk about automation!
#18: Throw Them in the River
July 12th, 2018 · 34 minutes
This week, Savannah and Alex visit the Moxy studio and hotel to do a live show addressing Bond Villain Elon Musk, scooters as a superior form of transportation, and a surprise robot that's taking Kickstarter by storm!
We are in a tiny little booth so you can SORT OF hear the audience and bar, but ignore that and listen to us yell!