Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

The Robot Revolution Will Be Networked

The Terminator movie series supposes a future in which a powerful, centralized computer takes control of robots and other machines in order to wage war on the human race. Science fiction fantasty, you say? Not if the robot elite have their way.
In an article on CNET about personal robots — you know, that cute Pleo [...]

WowWee Robots Will Annoy You With Jokes

At this year’s CES, consumer robot maker WowWee is set to unveil its newest models including several bots that tell jokes. So this is where the robot revolution is taking us?
According to PC World, the company’s new products include Mr. Personality, a three-wheeled robot with an LCD face that really, really wants to be your [...]

Do Not Let Robots Take Over Christmas

No I’m not talking about Robot Santa from Futurama, but I am worried that robots are threatening our cherished holiday. Every year a new crop of robot toys hit the shelves in time for the Christmas buying season, and this year two of the hot sellers are expected to be the i-Sobot from Takara/Tomy and [...]

WowWee Releases 4 New Robots at 2007 CES

Not content to rest on its Robo laurels, WowWee rolled out four new robot lines at CES, along with an animatronic Elvis head, for good measure.
New robots from WowWee include the Roboboa (a snake-like robot), Robopanda (you guessed it, a robot panda), Roboquad (a four-legged bot), and RS Media (the long awaited next generation Robosapien).