The 8th Annual Robot Film Festival was held on July 14, 2018 at the McMenamins Mission Theater in Portland, OR.  The theme was Vintage Arcade Revival.

Press:

• Social Home Robots: 35 Years of Progress (Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum)
• The 8th Annual Robot Film Festival (Andrea Morris, Forbes)

Schedule: Saturday, July 14, 2018

3:30
Doors

4:00
Festival Intro

Heather Knight, Professor, Oregon State University

Home Robots from the 1980s to Today (Evan Ackerman, IEEE Automation)

4:15
Headliner: The Nostalgist

Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Q&A w/ Marek Michalowski of BeatBots

4:45
Short Film Program

Session 1: Weird Science

Session 2: Short Circuit

Session 3: Batteries Not Included

6:30
Cocktail Party, Demos, & Red Carpet

Janky Arcade

Beach-Ball ThrowBot

Sheldon Robot

Hula-Dancing Art Bots

Rubix-Cube-Solving Robot

Silent Dance Party

Cocktails based on 1980s robot films

8:30
Botskers Awards Ceremony

ChairBots: I Want to Dance With Somebody

Ecstatic Robots (Gabriel Surley)

Comedic Award Ceremony (Ginger the Robot, Heather Knight, Andrew MacGregor)