Story Layer
Andrew KarlsruherA TV writer thinking deeply about character and story for robotics
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What Optimus Can Learn from Pac-Man
Video games spent decades leaning into one of the greatest cop-outs in storytelling history. Give the player a blank slate. An empty vessel you puppet with a controller. The excuse was that allowing the player to project themselves onto the...
Grainwashing
A humanoid robot walks through a sunlit bedroom. Dust motes hang in the air. The camera drifts through a lens flare, revealing grain that suggests it was shot on 16mm film. A baritone voice begins speaking softly over ambient piano — intima...
The First Thing We Feel
A character tells you who they are before they open their mouth. Before you know their name, what they want, or what they’re afraid of. All by how they move through a room. In Batman Returns, Danny DeVito’s lurching, side-to-side gait is me...
Notes from the Robot's Writers Room
I’m currently working with a robotics company on the character of their product. I can’t say which one or describe the specifics of what we’re doing, but I do want to share some reflections. What’s challenged my expectations and what I’m le...
The Robot in the Radiation Room
I came to robotics as a TV writer. Believing that the principles behind good story and character have application to embodied AI. My thesis, which I’ve been developing here, is simple: story should be treated as infrastructure. Not as an af...
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