Science Fiction Robots

Hot Bots For The Robo Fetishist

If you’re into that sort of thing, and maybe you need to seek some help if you are, io9 has a whole post about sexy sex robots from science fiction complete with pictures. Yuck.

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Booze And Bots

I guess if humanity is destined to be enslaved by cyberbots then we might as well have a drink and toast our last days of meat freedom. Yes Roboexotica, the annual bacchanal of cocktail-mixing robots, is getting underway in Vienna. The carnival of booze-fueled robo-propaganda will pave the way for the great silicon uprising with [...]

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Too Many Robots In The Kitchen

A Chinese professor named Liu Changfa has developed a robot cook that has a built-in induction cooker and a pot to prepare meals for us. The upside of this is you no longer have to worry about someone spitting in the food or finding a stray hair on your plate. The downside, of course, is [...]

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Your Order Does Not Compute: Robo-Restaurant Opens In Germany

The Japanese, as we’re all aware, have been working feverishly to build a vast array of service robots out of (a somewhat justified) fear that declining birthrates and demand for higher wages will deplete the service sector. Well it looks like some entrepreneurs in Germany have beat them to the punch and opened a fully [...]

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I, Drinkbot

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 [...]

tags: Beer launching robots, Dancing robots, Helpful robots, Humping robots, Industrial robots, Robot servants, Robots, Video, Web Video author: zaxoodle comments: No Comments

Robots push the easy button at Staples

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 [...]

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Robot clockwatchers

According to the Japan Times, a temp agency in Tokyo is renting out robots as receptionists. Now the fatalist in me sees this as just another nail in the coffin, one more way the robots are going to take all our jobs and take over the world. Note the ominous quote from a company official: [...]

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Another beer-pouring robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCccJlW3GUM

I’m starting to think that robots — or maybe the robot makers — are maybe a tad bit alcoholic with all these bots designed to pour beer and mix drinks. Though I would say that this one would be a little tough to get into the living room. Better stick with the Japanese version.

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Robots: The New Migrant Workers?

First the robots moved in and started taking away factory jobs, now it looks like soon they will be stealing jobs from migrant farm workers in California. What next, android nanny’s? Doh! Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.
From Wired News:
As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn’t complicated enough, now [...]

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Robots advance, consumers stall (The Christian Science Monitor)

The CSM calls a fear of robots a ‘Frankenstein complex,’ I just say it’s good common sense. Nevertheless, some good reading about the exploding consumer robot market in the US,
While Americans seem to have little problem with their unknowing interactions with robots, dealing with a product that is clearly an automaton exposes some of [...]

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