The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
If you don’t believe yet how scary the robot menace can be, you will after watching this little video:
Yes indeed, those are the animatrons of The Rock-afire Explosion, last seen at a Chuck E. Cheese near you. Only these droids have been reprogrammed with a whole new soundtrack, baby, and they are coming to get [...]
While you’re waiting for Richard Branson to get his Virgin One space tourism business up and running, you can get close to space by taking a ride in a Mig-25 Foxbat. The Russian fighter can rocket from the ground to 65,000 feet in less than 10 minutes, giving you ample time to survey the view [...]
A while back we posted a video of some Old World machines playing ragtime music, but don’t start thinking that robots can’t rock out. Proof comes via a recent post at the infinitely superior Suicide Bots about the performance art/rock band Captured! By Robots. Turns out some dude calling himself JBOT built an entire band [...]
We’ve noticed a disturbing trend here of more and more robots designed to service our needs where it comes to alcohol, either mixing cocktails, pouring us beers, or just tossing cans of lager at us, so we thought it would be a good and novel idea to make a video with a warning about the [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGKq7TOvQo
Are you feeling a little jealous you didn’t think to have a robot band playing, uh, whatever that is they are playing at your wedding? Well, check out Normans Organs in the UK, they apparently rent out these machines for any and all occasions.
No one said the robot uprising would have awesome musical accompaniment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlnvnF4dl8
If we have to have our society overrun by robots, please tell me they won’t all be as annoying and creepy as Robopanda.
How can Staples supply all your pens and notebooks and reams of paper at such low, low prices? Why, robots of course. According to an article reprinted from FastCompany.com, the office supply giant has a small army of robots working at its distribution center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Yet more menial wage jobs taken away by [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKYaNrVmlU
Okay, so maybe robots do have an important role to play in our society. They make way better cannon fodder than people do.
One of the things we fear most about robots is that they will become stronger, faster, and smarter than us lowly bags of meat and water. But what if robots actually become lazier than us? Researchers at Stanford have concluded that for humans to interact successfully with mechanical begins, the droids need to be made [...]
A lot of people out there have been taking the piss out of Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty for trying to alert the government and the people to the danger of the robot uprising, so we just wanted to offer Mr. Keelty our heartfelt support. He is a hero for taking a stand [...]
