The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
Advanced robots, especially those that mimic human or animal traits, have a certain wow factor that immediately grabs attention, but the robot overlords scheming towards the robot uprising and total human enslavement know that they need to do more than amaze with technical wizardry. They know that to really get people to love and embrace [...]
Alright, maybe not everything that robots do is 100% pure evil. Take for example this performance of The Nutcracker by several warehouse automation bots from KIVA Systems. It is pretty sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmtya8emMw
On the other hand, maybe this is just the first step by KIVA Systems towards automating the entire Christmas season. May your holiday be joyous [...]
Sexy hot robots dancing, tempting me with the siren call of their sultry moves. Must resist urge to give into carnal cybernetic propaganda. Curse you curvaceous robots and your dance of domination over humankind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cva_sGN_0VA
A prescient warning from Andrew Thompson to all the kids out there. Don’t trust robots, kids, they’re out to kill you. (Thanks to BoingBoing)
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=387EtgLp_WE
I really should flag this video for messing with my mind. Who does the robot to bagpipe music? How does white white man get served by the robot doing the robot to bagpipe music? And why the hell is there a bagpiper playing the Darth Vader march that is causing everyone to do the robot? [...]
Miuro is just a dancing fool. Now it looks like this bot is dancing its way into the American consumer market. Here’s what the AP has to say:
Tokyo-based venture ZMP Inc.’s 14-inch long Miuro robot - which looks like a white ball wedged between two halves of an egg - wheels about in time [...]
We’ve seen talking robots, walking robots, robots that make tea, robots that throw cans of beer, and robots that kill, but this certainly has to be the cutest robot of them all.
Keepon (pronounced “kee-pong”) from those robot design masters at Carnegie Mellon is designed to not only find the beat but also move in rhythm [...]
