Robot Uprising: a story-driven AI robotics experience (38c3)

It's the 2040’s. The dusty skyline of Helsinki is covered with vertical buildings reaching for the clouds. Autonomous drones deliver messages and items from layer to layer while robots maintain the aerial pathways across buildings. A sense of tension hangs in the air. Somewhere beneath the surface, hackers and corporates wage war over AI. Will they be able to master it, or will the City succumb to a dark technology? **Perhaps you can change the fate of things?** Do you like deep-diving into AI & robotics, but wish you could escape the inevitable existential dread of techno-capitalist dystopia? If acting it out through a story-driven hackathon sounds interesting, we might just have the right thing for you. [Robot Uprising](https://robotuprising.fi/) is a community-organised, story-driven AI & robotics event series. Part LARP, part hackfest, part robotics competition, it all neatly fits together under the umbrella of an overarching cyberpunk story. The story provides inspiration for the events, the events provide the "historical facts" that shape how the narrative develops. In this talk, we'll take you through the history of Robot Uprising, delve into the technologies (robotics or otherwise) explored through our events, and contemplate how story and hacking intertwine. Our hope is to convince you of the awesomeness of story-driven hacking and inspire you to create many more events like this all around the world. You can join us at [House of Tea after the talk](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/robot-uprising-come-chat-after-our-talk_b0lw/) for a cup of tea and we can continue talking in a more intimate setting. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/robot-uprising-a-story-driven-ai-robotics-experience/