Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

Good job for a robot: Picking up mail

Okay, these aren’t real robots, but the US Postal Service is deploying an army of mailboxes built to look like R2D2, and I say that’s a step in the right direction. I could get behind the idea of a motionless robot that just has a slot to drop in mail. Maybe it could confirm for [...]

Battlestar Grrr-lactica

Everyone tells me that the new Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi Network is the best thing since sliced bread, but I’ve been reluctant to go down that road. Then I saw some pics of Tricia Helfer, who plays a Cyclon robot on the show, and who posed nude for this month’s Playboy. I have to say [...]