Caption: Visitors attend a demonstration of a robot named ‘Pepper’ at the IBM stand on day 3 of the Mobile World Congress 2016 on February 24, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world’s largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and wearables gadgets. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images.

In this highlight clip, Reading The Pictures Salon moderator Nate Stormer and panelists Corey Keller, Rebecca Adelman, Max Mutchler and Kurt Mutchler, explore the issues surrounding the existence of robots being used in our everyday lives.

The Reading the Pictures and Seeing Science/ UMBC salon, “How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture,” was held Thursday, December 1st, 2016 on Google HangOut with a live audience chat. Panelists included: Rebecca Adelman UMBC Professor of Media & Communication Studies; Ben de la Cruz, Multimedia Editor, Science Desk, NPR; Marvin Heiferman Faculty member, Curator, Project Director “Seeing Science”; Corey Keller – Curator, SFMOMA; Kurt Mutchler – Senior Editor, Science, Photography Department, National Geographic; and Max Mutchler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Hubble Heritage Project manager, visual scholar Nate Stormer explored ten key and provocative photos in a live Google Hangout, culled from thousands of media images across sixteen categories of science.

The Reading the Pictures Salon is an on-line, real-time discussion between photojournalists, visual academics and other visual or subject experts. Each salon examines a set of images relevant to the major stories of the day.

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