Chihyung Jeon & Heesun Shin: Hug Me Tight. A Robot Story

Datum
06. Novem­ber 2025 

Hybrid film screen­ing and discussion

The Pre­car­i­ous Aging research net­work is pleased to announce the next ses­sion that will take place on Novem­ber 6th at 2:00 p.m. in the Ali­son Richard Build­ing (and online). Dur­ing this ses­sion, we will screen the film Hug Me Tight: A Robot Sto­ry. In addi­tion to the screen­ing, we will host a Q&A ses­sion with the film­mak­ers, who will be join­ing us via Zoom.

For fur­ther details, reg­is­tra­tion and link for online par­tic­i­pa­tion, please go here: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47722/

‘Hug me tight: A robot sto­ry’. Pro­duced by Chi­hyung Jeon and Heesun Shin with sup­port from the Nation­al Research Foun­da­tion of South Korea.
In South Korea, thou­sands of old­er adults are liv­ing with Hyo­dol, a doll-shaped robot with elec­tron­ic sen­sors and com­mu­ni­ca­tion mod­ules. Fol­low­ing the jour­ney of Hyo­dol from its pro­duc­tion to use, Hug Me Tight: A Robot Sto­ry (61 min­utes) shows how the mean­ing of care is chang­ing in the age of robots. Fea­tur­ing mem­bers of the robot com­pa­ny, care work­ers who bring the robots to users, and old­er adults who inter­act with the robots dai­ly, the film asks impor­tant ques­tions for our age: Can robots take care of old­er adults? Can old­er adults take care of the robot? How should we take care of each other?
We hope to see many of you there !