Origin of the Species is an experimental documentary that explores the present local weather of android improvement with a give attention to human/machine relations, gender and the moral implications of this analysis. The movie supplies an insider look into leading edge laboratories in Japan and the USA the place scientists try and make robots transfer, converse and look human. These scientists and their discoveries are contextualized with cinematic and popular culture references, to underline the mythic, comedian and uncanny facets of our aspiration to create machines which might be eerily much like ourselves.
