Jim Henson made this short film for a Bell System’s seminar about data communications, a then unheard of topic.
Tech Buzz KILL IT WITH FIRE! Or just disconnect its power source. You know, whatever.
And here my money was on the Japanese. With the goal of bringing service robots to help people, Emirates based PAL Robotics has developed some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots, the REEM-series.
Richard Sargent created this “Where’s WALL-E?” robot art. How fast did you find him? Click to enlarge. (via theuniblog.evilspacerobot.com)
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There are even instructions on how to build your own. Skynet is coming…in the form of a cute cuddly robot.
This is Ed Milliband, leader of the Labour Party. He is also clearly a robot of some kind. Watch him answer three questions with the same exact answer. It's TERRIFYING.
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CanBot is an adorable little robot by Ron Tajima that is hidden inside a beer can. The robot can walk, stand, roll, and transform in and out of stealth beer can mode. It is controlled by a Wii remote.
This poor, lonely robot just can't seem to make it in our human world.
Let's just hope it doesn't tell mom jokes as good as you can. Then you'll be rendered totally useless.
Great, now even the robots are out of work and panhandling for spare change.
Scientists in Stuttgart have developed a technique for manufacturing human skin. Using robots to maintain a sterile growing environment, the scientists hope to produce tissue, cartilage, and even entire organs to transplant in humans. They claim the skin is being manufactured to treat injuries and medical conditions, but I'm pretty sure it's a front for a Cylon building factory. Also, “skin broth” is definitely one of the grossest two-word combos I've heard all year…
It only took them three days to fix this? And to think they've been repaving the same stretch of Interstate by my house for four months.
Culture Buzz Toyota isn’t just a car company, it produces quite cool robots, too. The company’s music-playing robots are particularly amazing, and the latest versions were presented over last weekend in Tokyo.
First your clock traps and eats insects, feeding on them for power and then we build robots that hunt and consume meat. What could go wrong? (Via.)
Be it by zombies, robots or aliens, we're screwed. They should add snow storms.
Eat your emotionless robot heart out, Roomba! The Dust Ball, by Dave Hakkens, is the vacuum of the future. I'd like to see a cat try and ride on this bad boy. (Via.)