MetaFilter posts tagged with robots and robot

Kill all humans / assemble self into chair

Artw — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:18:21 -0800

The Best Robots of 2008 (via)

Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers

jason's_planet — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:48:35 -0800

Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers

I'm both impressed and disturbed.

delmoi — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:56:03 -0800

It skateboards, it rollerskates it DESTROYS ALL HUMANS! Meet the Plen Robot

Robots

MetaMonkey — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:06:05 -0800

RobotFilter: Korea Unveils World's Second Android (YouTube), China manufactures personal robot, Japan's domestic robot, Why the Japanese want their robots to act more like humans. Robot runs over water, robotic tentacle (mpeg), 'baby' robot learns like a human (avi 1,2), Pill-sized intenstinal robot, speedy robot, spider robots. Lego Unveils NXT Robotics Toolset, Lego robot plays Super Mario Bros, Connect Four, solves Rubik's Cube. Building an army of robots, Big Dog, (wmv), Robots break Asimov’s first law. [more inside]

Robots Battle on Broadway and Big Screen

jrb223 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:39:42 -0800

Performing Artists and The Robot Uprising: Wri ters, Actors, and Directors bring us one step closer to the robot apocalypse, or provide us the necessary training to win the battle.

Steampunk Lives

ursus_comiter — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:22:55 -0800

Some 30 billion pounds of steam every year flow beneath the streets of Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street. While it is unknown to most New Yorkers, Con Edison's subterranean steam system is the biggest steam district in the world, larger than the next four largest U.S. steam systems combined... And it's got a robot. [MI]

Welcome our big-bootied robot overloards

numlok — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:14:47 -0800

On the Chilean island of Robinson Crusoe, a small GPR-enabled robot named Arturito (google translated page) has apparently just found "The biggest treasure in history..." (estimated at $10 Billion).

Go, Rockin' Robots

yankeefog — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 04:49:55 -0800

Dannybot is a short musical film about a lonely man whose robot goes off to war. It shouldn't be confused with What's Your Name, a music video about a lonely robot office worker, which itself shouldn't be confused with the previously-MeFi'd one about a worker who doesn't know he's a robot, or the one about the worker who is haunted by robots, or the much lower-tech Kraftwerk video "The Robots (mpg video), or the video about a robot scavenger in a third-world nation (mp4 video) (which itself shouldn't be confused with that previously-MeFi'd non-musical short about a robot cop in a third-world nation), none of which should be confused with any of the various shorts (Windows Media) and commercials(MPG) about breakdancing robots(streaming video). However, any of the previous videos about robots could have been made by the robots in this music video about robots making a music video(quicktime). If any of this is unclear, please contact your local League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. (links mainly via Memepool and Antville.)

Robot Friend Ancient Music Fish

dfowler — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:57:16 -0800

With My Special Partner, I can drink my way back to the 7th Millenium BCE for ancient music, and the fish’ll tell me how to get home .

Robot camel jockeys

Tlogmer — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:57:37 -0800

DUBAI (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates is to mount robot jockeys on racing camels later this year after a ban on using children in the region's popular sport.

Robot Evolution

effwerd — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:04:45 -0800

Honda has upgraded Asimo. They've added jogging, autonomous continuous movement, some new joint designs, and better intelligence, expanding the range of humanoid robots, which includes, the Qrio from Sony, Isamu, and Toyota's offering that entered the fray earlier this year (previously discussed). (More)

Robodump

meowchow — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:43:00 -0800

RoboDump I need one of these for my workplace

Biometal: Robotic Muscle

zanpo — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:53:22 -0800

Made from a nickel-titanium alloy, and highly processed for electrical activation and long life, the thin black thread-like BioMetal acts as an artificial muscle. When powered, the BioMetal contracts. When power turns off, the BioMetal quickly cools and the wire extends again to its longer, starting length.

Koolio

lola — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:08:35 -0800

Koolio is a traveling autonomous refrigerator robot ... a cross between R2D2 and a vending machine.

delmoi — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:53:56 -0800

But what about the terrible secret of space? Inteligent robot escapes, then gets run over by a car. The driver makes a bad joke.

Dinzie — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:53:04 -0800

For the gardener who has everything, a slug eating robot will seek and destroy those slimy gastropods destroying the garden. The only downside is having to admit the crappy beer you buy is for yourself and not for your slug traps!

beagle — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 05:48:18 -0800

Prototype mechanical soldier tried out in WWI! Your challenge on this site is to separate fact from fiction.

Nyarlathotep — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:08:20 -0800

Boba Fett hired by NASA.