April 03, 2019

CORVALLIS, Ore. – “Singu-hilarity: A Robot Comedy Variety Show” will take the stage April 19 at Corvallis’ Majestic Theater, 115 SW Second St.

Produced by Naomi Fitter, assistant professor of robotics in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, the show will feature Jon the Robot, Ginger the Robot, SpiderHarp and the Robot Aquarium.

Mathematics Ph.D. student Sarah Hagen will also perform, as will various members of OSU’s Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute. The Irrelevant Podcast comedy team will be part of the show as well, “focusing on nerdy themes from the podcast hosts’ lives,” Fitter said.

The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10 and are available online.

In conjunction with Singu-hilarity, Fitter will install a robotic art piece in the Majestic gallery. The “drawing robot” will be accompanied by other robots or robot-generated art pieces from April 15 to April 19.

College of Engineering

About the OSU College of Engineering: The college is a global leader in artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, clean water and energy, materials science, computing, resilient infrastructure and health-related engineering. Among the nation’s largest and most productive engineering programs, the college awards more bachelor’s degrees in computer science than any other institution in the United States. The college ranks second nationally among land grant universities, and fifth among the nation’s 94 public R1 universities, for percentage of tenured or tenure-track engineering faculty who are women.

 

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Steve Lundeberg, 541-737-4039
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Naomi Fitter
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