Robots

In Real Life

Transform! Ridiculous Transformations And Showboating In Games

8:38AM Today | Chris Person

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. More »


In Real Life

Russian Builds Talking Scale Replica Of GLaDOS

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11:30AM February 5, 2012 | Logan Booker

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. More »


In Real Life

Let’s Look At Robot Butts. Together.

9:45PM January 16, 2012 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »


In Real Life

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

12:20PM November 30, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »


Retro

Namco, You Dirty, Dirty Dog (Robot?)

8:00PM November 8, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »


News

See The Minimal Human, Haptic Gaming Chair In Action

3:00AM August 10, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »


News

A Robot Begins His DDR Odyssey

8:00PM July 26, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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


News

Army Wants Soldiers’ Heads To Control Robots

12:40AM May 16, 2011 | Spencer Ackerman - Danger Room

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. More »


News

Japanese University Can’t Stop Building Robotic Babies

1:20AM May 10, 2011 | Cyriaque Lamar

Researchers at Osaka University previously brought us Affetto, the disembodied baby head who was supposed to teach us empathy (or something). Now roboticists at Osaka’s Hosoda Lab have built Pneuborn-7II and Pneuborn-13, pint-sized robots that emulate infants’ movements. More »


In Real Life

This Robot Dog’s Ugly Is Only Skin Deep

12:30AM April 5, 2011 | Brian Crecente

It looks more organic than robotic. The four legs march under the barrel chest of the robot, snapping up two at a time in perfect precision. But when Boston Dynamic’s creation, BigDog, is pushed, or it walks across ice, it suddenly looks very much alive as it stumbles to correct itself, and succeeds. More »