Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

And When You Sneeze Does The Robot Say “Ichi homerarete?”

Never at a loss for a reason to deploy an army of robots, the Japanese are hoping their cyborg buddies will help them avoid hay fever this year.
Tokyo-based Weathernews is set to unleash a flotilla of Pollen Bots that people can hang outside their homes to monitor the air quality. In typical Japanese fashion, the [...]

Spirit Struggling To Survive

It’s no big secret we’re pretty anti-robot around here, but even we have a soft spot for some of these mechanical beasts, like the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Sent on a three-month mission to survey the Red Planet, those little guys are still going strong almost four year’s later.
So it was a little bit [...]