As much as I’d like them to, zombies do not exist, but there is another relentless force that with little prompting could one day attempt to subjugate the human race: Robots. Thankfully we have men like “Robopocalypse” author Daniel H. Wilson on our side.
In 1981, having left Atari three years previously, Bushnell founded Catalyst Technologies, a venture capital group designed to help invest in technology start-ups. Catalyst in turn went onto fund a company called Androbot, for which Bushnell served as chairman of the board.
Sailor Moon magically changing clothes. Ultraman wasting precious minutes posing before battle. Spiderman summoning a giant robot. There’s just something special about watching a Japanese superhero show off.
At first, it’s just neat. Then it moves and then… then it talks. I’m already having nightmares of a 1000 micro-GLaDOSes with tiny headcrab legs scuttling over my sleeping, prostrate body.
Robots are badass! You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. But in basking in their awesomeness, we’ve forgotten something important: their backsides.
Spotted by game localiser and author Matt Alt, this Namco ad from the mid-1980s originally ran in a toy industry trade publication. In it, an android looks up a woman’s skirt.
A floating avatar head that can look, listen and speak in the real world, a desk-embedded robot mole, high-tech tops, express-changing “minimal humans”, phantom haptic gaming chairs. The 38th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques sounds like a place of wild dreams and nightmares.
What are you doing this winter? This dude is having his robot friend Darwin pick up Dance Dance Revolution. Beats cutting grass!