The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
I’m not sure I understand or appreciate the technological achievement of creating a robot monkey that channels the late Roy Orbison sining “Crying,” but it’s kinda cool. No, strike that, it’s kinda creepy, actually. It also puts a disturbing wrinkle in my world view about the relationship between monkey’s and robots, one that was formed [...]
This video comes via a post at Mr. Future (by way of BoingBoing) about Maywa Denki, a Japanese art and design company that has built an army of musical robots bent on world domination — or at least #1 with a bullet.
With all these robot musicians and singers popping up everywhere lately, maybe it’s [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 [...]
Remember a while back when news came out Michael Jackson wanted to build a 60-foot-tall robot version of himself to roam the desert around Las Vegas blasting airplanes out of the sky with his laser-beam eyes? Well, that idea hasn’t gone away, but if this story from the UPI is to be believed, it’s not [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zXAjxglQls
The video quality is pretty poor, but I think this is a nightmare vision of robots carousing in a bar listening to a robot ragtime band. Yes, after the robots have disposed of us meat bags, they will at last be able to create a world full of ragtime music. The horror!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek8mSmS6pM8
What’s funny is this old Kraftwerk video could actually be reality with today’s technology. Heck, there probably is some robot band out there playing. Maroon 5 comes to mind.
