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Amazing Stage Performance Of Illusionist Marco With EDI Robot

The famous techno-illusionist Marco Tempest has a new friend: EDI, a “multifunctional robot designed to work closely with humans.” In this video, Marco makes a plea, on the stage, for a closer cooperation between humans and robots. The duo even performs a magic trick to support the claim by the illusionist!

This time the famous Swiss illusionist Marco Tempest has returned accompanied by a new friend. EDI (note: Electronic Deceptive Intelligence) will be the new companion of Marco in future live performances. It is a robot-like Baxter, which tbelongs to a family collaborative robots, which do not require complex programming and are designed to facilitate interaction between humans and robots.

“We are all intrigued by the possibility of a mechanical version of ourselves. The perfect robot would be no different from humans, and that’s what scares us. Since we can not read facial expressions of a robot, we can not anticipate his actions “ confesses Marco. But it goes both ways, according to own confession of EDI : “Humans are unpredictable and irrational! I literally have no idea what you’ll do.” For reference please see the video here.

Amazing Stage Performance Of Illusionist Marco With EDI Robot-2

In this video, we can see the presentation of EDI by Marco. Stage performance, halfway between humor and technology, is very successful.  This presentation, light-hearted, is interspersed with small jokes, EDI can even respond to Marco comments in a tit for tat manner! Finally to close the show, the two artists perform a magic trick as a team to convince the most skeptical about the intelligence of the robot.

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It is amazing to see how robotic intelligence is changing rapidly! In writing, we are really surprised to see a robot that understands and speaks like a human. This opens a wide field of possibilities for their application to real life. As for you, would you have a discussion or make friends with a robot?