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Musical
Robots in Music Videos: James Kochalka Superstar – Monkey vs. Robot
14.02.10 :: 1 Comment, leave your own!

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.
Musical
Robots in Music Videos: Beck – Hell Yes
13.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

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.
Art
Robots in Music Videos: Flight of the Conchords – The Humans are Dead
12.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

Here we have Flight of the Conchords – The Humans are Dead. Apologies on the credits sequence but this is the only version in which they were dressed as robots that included the binary solo. I feel it is my duty to point out that it isn’t true binary but I guess that’s covered by [...]
Musical
Robots in Music Videos: Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger
11.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

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.
Musical
Robots in Music Videos: Kraftwerk – The Robots
10.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

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.
Hobby, Weird
Hi-Five for Hobbyist’s Robotic Hands
07.02.10 :: 1 Comment, leave your own!

BloodKeith, a robot hobbyist from China, has designed and built himself some pretty sweet robotic hands. The hands themselves have 7cm long fingers, with 5cm for the thumbs, and the fingers are simultaneously controlled by a single servo. The videos on his blog show the hands grasping various objects and opening/closing at different speeds. The [...]
Art, Hobby
Piperoids Papercraft Robots
06.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

I spotted these really cool papercraft robots on some dude’s livejournal and had to find out a little more, mainly as to why they sound like they might be a painful case of groin growths. There’s some info over at the Paperoid website – such as all the different robots available, what their skillsets are [...]
Concepts, Research
Flying Robot Penguins – AirPenguin
04.02.10 :: 6 Comments, leave your own!

As if penguins weren’t awesome enough already, Festo, an über efficient German efficiency company, have created the AirPenguin – an autonomous flying robot penguin. This is a pure example of beautiful engineering at work, if not pointless (except for being a pure example of beautiful engineering at work of course). The penguins have a micro-controller [...]
Concepts, Hobby, Research
Icosatetraped Robot!
03.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

This robot is really cool and reminds me of some sort of Pokémon snail/millipede creature or Rincewind’s Luggage from Terry Pratchett’s novels. Icosatetraped means that is has 24 feet, which whilst is true, only actually uses 8 of them to move – the other 16 ‘feet’ being used to support the robot’s weight. Most remarkable [...]
Hobby, Weird
Bender Brewer Brews Benderbrau Beer
01.02.10 :: Make a Comment!

We all secretly knew that Bender would end up as a post sooner or later, but what guise would he be in? Well, when I was finding stuff out about yesterday’s robot I found this little project which is immensely brilliant. Some dude in New Zealand took it upon himself to build a life-size Bender [...]

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I LIKE ROBOTS

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.