All Posts Tagged With: "robots"

Movie scenes to remember: Achilles vs Alexander from Robot Jox [I Heart Movies]

In the first fight scene from the sort of obscure 1990 sci-fi masterpiece, the giant robots Achilles and Alexander do battle to the death. In the post WW3 world of Robot Jox, all war is outlawed and in its place, they have battle between men controlling gigantic robots. Great stuff if you can [...]

11Aug2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Dinosaur loose in the LA Natural History Museum [I Heart Tech]

HOLY SHIT THERE’S A DINOSAUR LOOSE IN THE MUSEUM! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

24Jul2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Build your own virtual fractal robot [I Heart Tech]

The fractal robots are a virtual art project that you can manipulate once you download the files to do so… essentially it’s one giant robot that starts building a smaller clone of itself, whose only purpose is to build a smaller clone of itself ad infinitum.
SEVERAL years ago, I built a robot whose sole purpose [...]

14Jul2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Autonomous quadcopters perfect for stopping nosy crowbar-wielding scientists [I Heart Tech]

The Stanford STARMAC autonomous quadcopters are highly advanced super-stable hovering aircraft, capable of steering around obstacles, other bots and correcting destabilization incredibly quickly.

4Jul2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Japanese man arrested for having autonomous Digg robot [I Heart Tech]

Okay, so I’m no expert on Japanese law, but since when is rigging Digg against the law anywhere? I have a feeling that this is either a) bullshit or b) the guy was arrested for something else and the cops just happened to find this in his house, since this is an incredibly cool [...]

3Jul2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

The measure of a robot: Robots from good to evil in chart form [Pic]

Sci-fi blog io9 produced this handy chart so you can tell at a glance the level of evil any robot you encounter might hold. Is he boxy or human-like? Good or evil?

30Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Breakfast discussion: Humans will have robot lovers by 2050? [I Heart Tech]

Some people say we could have full robot lovers by 2050. Do you think this is accurate? Is the world ready for the discussion on whether humans and robots can get married?

16Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 1 comment | Continued

Awful TV of the 1980s flashback: Small Wonder [I Heart TV]

Small Wonder was an utterly shit show, but I watched the shit. I guess I thought the girl was cute and the idea of a slightly bitchy android girlfriend was hot. Even if she dressed like a prude, you knew given half a chance, an android would fuck your brains out. At [...]

10Jun2008 | cranberryzero | 1 comment | Continued

Waltz of Death: Robots destroying each other in slow motion [I Heart Tech]

Who doesn’t love watching two or more homemade robots destroying each other? Give it some time and it’ll be both an Olympic sport and the national pastime. But if normal remote controlled robot fighting is too hectic for you, pour yourself a nice glass of wine and watch these robots ripping each other wheel from wheel in slow motion set to a beautiful waltz.

29May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Robot can get 100% on expert in Rock Band, but you still suck [I Heart Games]

Just last weekend after a furious session of Rock Band, I wondered how possible it would be to create a bot to learn how to play drums in Rock Band to 100%. Well, it’s not drums… maybe someday someone will do that, but it’s a robot that can absolutely ace every song in Rock [...]

6May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Meet the robot that reassembles itself when kicked apart [I Heart Tech]

In this wacky video, a robot developed at the University of Pennsylvania is able to identify its scattered parts and put itself back together when kicked to pieces on its never-ending search for Sara Connor.

1May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

GameStop Girl, I want to kill robotic zombie terrorists with you [I Heart Internets]

Okay, normally, I refrain from posting stuff from Craigslist because well, I don’t know, I just usually don’t. There’s only so many hours in a day. However– this one, considering it’s right in my area, I figure I’d go ahead and post it and see if maybe any IHCers local to the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel [...]

20Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 2 comments | Continued

Video of the inner working of an automaton from 1875 [I Heart Tech]

The world’s obsessions with robots didn’t just begin in the 20th century. As a matter of fact, the notion that some day we would be able to create robotic servants and companions goes back as far as history itself. There was a high tide of mechanical humanoid wonders in the late 1800s in Europe, where [...]

10Apr2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Robot babysitters are here [JapanWTF]

WTF Japan? As if depersonalizing a kid’s social interactions and bombarding them with buy crap ads is the answer to anything.

29Mar2008 | Jonesy | 2 comments | Continued

How To: Build your own war robot [How To]

Now this is the How To you’ve been waiting for. Waiting for your whole damn life. Ever since second grade, when you were drawing tank bots shooting Nazis in the face, you’ve been waiting for this one. Thanks to Wired, this forbidden knowledge of how to build a badass tank bot that will scare the [...]

24Mar2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued