I saved this one for the last day of Robots in Music Videos week, or whatever just happened, because it is extremely epic. Just check it out and agree.
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13.02.10 :: No comments yet, leave your own!
Beck had four dancing Sony QRIOs in his video for Hell Yes, which is pretty cool. At the time, there were only four QRIOs in existence, and are all present in the video. I will post more on QRIOs in the future.
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Enter Daft Punk, robot DJs from the future. Okay so it’s just a couple of French dudes in shiny helmets really, but they certainly do produce some thumping noise, eh kids? There’s a robot in this video mooching around Byron Bay. Check it out, yo.
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Today we will be viewing Kraftwerk – The Robots. Whilst Kraftwerk weren’t actually robots, they might as well have been. Humanoid robots. Grumpy humanoid German robots. Here they sing about how they actually are the robots, so, who knows? I don’t think anyone actually does. Enjoy.
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09.02.10 :: 5 Comments, leave your own!
Next up we have Bjork being a robot in All is Full of Love. This video is really well made and reminds me of the robots in I, Robot (which wasn’t so great). The song is bloody good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA
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Okay, so I am actually now on holiday in Egypt. If everything has gone to plan this post will magically appear on Monday morning and there should be one tomorrow and the next day and so on in that fashion until I get back. If the posts dry up, you know I have failed but rest assured I won’t give a crap because I will romping about in the sand, bazaars and swimming pools. Also, I have to say that what follows is a series of short posts because I was too lazy to write lots and lots.
Oh and there’s a theme – music videos. Robots in music videos. Yeah, that’ll do. Robots in Music Videos week.
First up is Beastie Boys – Intergalactic. An excellent robot with a forever awesome song.
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21.01.10 :: No comments yet, leave your own!
doing the robot since, well, 2010
Welcome to the shiny, spinny, flappy, dancey world of the Rolly, a robotic MP3 player. Cute, fun but perhaps a little pointless.
Unveiled this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, this fit-in-your-pocket device is first looks like an egg-shaped MP3 player. However, it is not your standard egg-shaped MP3 player, if there even is one, since it is a robot and it can dance. Whut?! Yes, dance. Using the two wheels around its body it can roll about to your music. The glee doesn’t stop there though, it also has little flappy arms connected to tiny shoulders on each end that it flaps, folds and body-pops for your enjoyment. The Rolly also has the capability to keep you mesmerised by firing waves and particles of approximately 700 different colours warmly onto your retina. All whilst it spews out your rubbish music through potentially tinny speakers as you sit in your kitchen stuffing crisps into your face and clapping manically.
Rather than it having an LCD screen to control your music, or whatever it is you describe it as, you can “simply” spin the Rolly either way to make it play or skip a tune. Hold it vertically and you can adjust the volume with “simple” pirouettes. I can’t figure out how you make the thing stop, but I think you might have to “simply” hold it at a 47 degree angle to the trajectory of Venus in comparison to Mars whilst whistling the theme tune from Neighbours. Backwards.
The Rolly is a 2GB beast, so you can hold around 520 songs on it, but Sony decided it didn’t need to have a headphone jack. And this is why I think it is pointless. When the going price is $229 (only due to be released in spring in the US), I can think of plenty of other MP3 players to spend my hard-earned pennies on that I can actually use in the traditional sense of an MP3 player in that they would have headphones. Saying this, I would still enjoy owning one – after all, you can program it with your very own dance routines using included software and it will even accept music wirelessly through Bluetooth – and cry with joy as I watch it do its thing whilst sitting in my kitchen stuffing crisps into my face and clapping manically.
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05.01.10 :: No comments yet, leave your own!
Okay, so I knew it wouldn’t take long before I had to post this.. back in 2007 I saw this video through New Scientist and melted. This robot, Keepon, was to undertake the interesting task of helping to identify the “underlying rhythm in human communications” in an attempt to help robots interact in more natural ways. However, it sure is cute and bouncey. It was also voted as one of the top ten robots last decade (more of these robots to come in the year, as it is a great list!).
Keepon via New Scientist and GoRobotics
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2010: A YEAR IN ROBOTS
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Blimey, it’s 2010 already, the most futuristic year to have ever happened. And what else exists in the future? Robots of course. So, in homage to our new masters (pending imminent takeover) here you will find a new robot each and every day of 2010, whether they be in pictures, art, videos or other forms.
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