Star Wars turns 40 and it still inspires our real life space junkies
Jonathan Roberts
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Jonathan Roberts
Director of the Australian Cobotics Centre, Technical Director at ARM Hub, Professor in Robotics at Queensland University of Technology, Adjunct Science Fellow at CSIRO Data61
It was 40 years ago today, on May 25, 1977, that Star Wars first burst onto cinema screens, and from that time the world changed for the better. Some of us had our lives and careers shaped by Star Wars, and by longing to create the things we saw when we were young. Forty years on, who and what has been shaped by this revolutionary movie?
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