How robot movie cameras made the film “Gravity” possible
Jeff Linnell had wondered for years why no one had repurposed industrial robots—the sort of giant, powerful arms that assemble cars on factory floors—as programmable tripods for movie cameras, reports Ciara Byrne. So in 2008 the owner of a small advertising firm bought three used industrial robots, and within a week one was used to shoot a TV commercial for Louis Vuitton.
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