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Monday Cute: Cats React Appropriately To Electronic Kitten Toy And Then…

by Jill Pantozzi | 9:32 am, June 10th, 2013

On the whole, cats are usually freaked out by moving electronic devices. Especially cat robots. The reaction these two cats have is textbook at first but then something wonderful happens.

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New Trailer for The World’s End Gets Even More Robots

by Susana Polo | 1:14 pm, May 22nd, 2013

You can’t go wrong with more robots.

UN’s Moratorium on Killer Robots Sounds Funny; Is Actually Horrifying

by Susana Polo | 2:45 pm, May 3rd, 2013

A United Nations Human Rights Commission report out this week examines the current technological state of autonomous weapons. Not automatic weapons, to be clear: autonomous weapons. Computerized weapons that detect targets automatically and do not need the intervention of human input to dispense lethal force.

Ha ha ha, I mean, come on, it’s not like we have those already, right? And we’re certainly not about to start building the Terminator or anything like it, right? Ha? Heh? Heh. No, seriously, please refute the things I have just said.

Deceptively Cute Robots Here to Ask You Personal Questions… But For What Purpose?!?!

by Susana Polo | 12:07 pm, April 22nd, 2013

Would You Have Sex With A Robot? Don’t Worry, You’re Not The Only One.

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:45 pm, April 12th, 2013

It’s one thing to have sex with a robot unknowingly, ala Battlestar Galactica, but would you get down with an electronic partner willingly? According to a new survey, one in ten Americans would. Are you one of them?

The Inevitable Result of Robot Surgery

by Susana Polo | 5:48 pm, February 28th, 2013

I’ll say up front that I have no particular knowledge of the safety of robot assisted surgery, the long-term health effects, or its impact on the medical and patient community, other than the fact that the Wikipedia article on it has no less than four “issues” listed at the top of it and they’ve all been there since 2010.

What I do know, is that this actual commercial is one step away from an actual Saturday Night Live Sketch, and also that they really, really could have come up with a more serious url than one that implies swatting a roomba with a rolled up newspaper. (Also, I just checked, and badrobotsurgery.tumblr.com is totally available, people.)

(via I Heart Chaos.)

John Martz Illustrates Three Of Our Favorite Things: Robots, Superheroes, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:30 pm, February 17th, 2013

We’ve posted the work of John Martz before, specifically his Trexels poster, which features pixelated versions of 235 Star Trek characters. But it turns out he’s done some awesome The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fanart, too, and there’s just no way I’m not going to post that. It’s like making it through a Vogon poetry recitation unscathed. It’s not going to happen. Also behind the cut are Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman designs, plus some miscellaneous robots, because Martz is nothing if not well-rounded in his geeky interests.

HBO’s Girls, But With Robots

by Susana Polo | 2:22 pm, January 29th, 2013

First an HBO series, and then what? Soon enough robots are going to want out of the cleaning services and into jobs that we actually respect a person for doing. And then they’ll want to vote!

Which Robot on This Illustrated Timeline Is Your Favorite?

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:10 pm, January 23rd, 2013

OK, so this illustrated timeline of fictional robots [and androids] isn’t perfect. Daleks aren’t technically robots, for one, so as far as Doctor Who is concerned the Cybermen might have been a better inclusion. (But are Cybermen technically robots if they have human brains? Discuss amongst yourselves.)

But I like it. And if there’s an image that includes R2-D2 and C-3PO, the Iron Giant, the Mariabot from Metropolis, Marvin the Paranoid Android, and The Muppets‘ 80s Robot, would you honestly expect me not to share it with you?

The entire (huge) image, by Taryn Wellman, is after the jump.

A Robotic Spider-Shouldered Dress Fit for any Supervillain, Other Mother, or Queen of Blades

by Susana Polo | 12:08 pm, January 11th, 2013

Designer Anouk Wipprecht was the impetus behind this dress topped with animatronic, twitching robot limbs. See it in action below, and figure out which occasion you’d wear it to. Old friend’s wedding? Ten year high school reunion?