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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#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!
#17: Two Dimensions is Enough: Live from C2E2 2018
May 24th, 2018 · 60 minutes
Alex and Savannah host a LIVE episode of Roboism at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo!
#16: I Love Paper Towels
May 17th, 2018 · 33 minutes
Alex and Savannah celebrate a belated Earth Day, and hope robots will be better than humans at taking care of our planet.
#15: The New NEW
May 12th, 2018 · 27 minutes
Alex brings on guest Kara Fagan so that she can blabber on about Google IO while Savannah is away.
#14: Only Death and $10,000
April 19th, 2018 · 26 minutes
Alex and Savannah are joined by some friends to talk about frozen brains and artificial consciousness.