In Real Life

Helpful Tips For Surviving The Impending Robot Apocalypse

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.


April 6, 2012
Retro

Atari’s Founder Also Made Awesome Robots

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.


February 10, 2012
In Real Life

Transform! Ridiculous Transformations And Showboating In Games

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.


February 5, 2012
In Real Life

Russian Builds Talking Scale Replica Of GLaDOS

Kotaku AU

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.


January 16, 2012
In Real Life

Let’s Look At Robot Butts. Together.

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.


November 30, 2011
In Real Life

Street Fighter’s Bosses Are Much More Menacing In Mecha Form

Artists BossLogic and Reza have teamed up to give the big baddies of Street Fighter a mecha makeover, creating a set of characters I’d gladly purchase another version of Street Fighter IV to play.


November 8, 2011
Retro

Namco, You Dirty, Dirty Dog (Robot?)

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.


August 10, 2011
News

See The Minimal Human, Haptic Gaming Chair In Action

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.


July 26, 2011
News

A Robot Begins His DDR Odyssey

What are you doing this winter? This dude is having his robot friend Darwin pick up Dance Dance Revolution. Beats cutting grass!


May 16, 2011
News

Army Wants Soldiers’ Heads To Control Robots

You thought laptop glare was murder on your eyes? Try sending a fleet of wheeled robots down into the horrors of battle using nothing but your icy stare.