MetaFilter posts tagged with robots

Panic Attack!

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:28:23 -0800

Music video for Snake featuring giant stompy robots invading Uruguay. Short film sans band. Behind the scenes.

cooking with contraptions

madamjujujive — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:47:46 -0800

Top 10 Food-Based Rube Goldberg Machines (videos) If this type of food preparation is too elaborate for your tastes, the Super-Fast Pancake-Sorting Flexpicker Robot might be more to your style.

Get away from her, you bitch!

KokuRyu — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:01:15 -0800

"Robot Suit HAL" is a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability. HAL, which weighs 23kg, is comprised of robotic 'limbs', and a backpack containing the suit's battery and computer system. It is strapped to the body and controlled by thought. When a person attempts to move, nerve signals are sent from the brain to the muscles, and very weak traces of these signals can be detected on the surface of the skin. The HAL suit identifies these signals using a sensor attached the skin of the wearer, and a signal is sent to the suit's power unit telling the suit to move in unison with the wearer's own limbs. Japan's METI ministry has been jointly working with private firms on the development of robots. This comes in response to growing demand for their use in nursing care and welfare amid the aging of Japanese society. Other robots developed under a project to assist people who need nursing care and rehabilitation, have been shown to the public.

Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead

dejah420 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:28:48 -0800

Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. and Robotic Technology Inc. have sent out a press release denying that their new robot will feed on the dead. "It's a vegetarian!", they claim. Desecration of the dead is a war crime under Article 15 of the Geneva Conventions, and is certainly not something sanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI. “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” stated Harry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO.

And you thought I was sexy...

sexyrobot — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:16:55 -0800

Corpse-eating zombie robots.

Geisha Missile. Geisha Dance. Geisha Army. Geisha Transfrom. Fried Shrimp.

youarenothere — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:16 -0800

Geisha is robot.

Sometimes the present is just like the future was supposed to be

Kattullus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:30:09 -0800

Robot penguins of the water and air are manufactured by German robotics manufacturer Festo, as well as aquatic and airborn rays (as in the fish). Here's another aquapenguin video from Festo's YouTube channel. These videos are so futuristic they don't seem real. [via, fittingly enough, William Gibson's Twitterfeed]

What you see is what you hear

finite — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:09:22 -0800

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix

Tweenbots

dirtdirt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:51:14 -0800

"Tweenbots are robots that navigate the city by the help of the people they meet." A little motorized cardboard robot, equipped with a flag saying, "I'm lost, help me find my way to Waverly and University", is set loose several blocks away at the other end of Washington Square Park. Does the robot make it to the other side? Is it mugged or robotnapped? Does the department of Homeland Security blow it up? The work of Kacie Kinzer.

Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar

Krrrlson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:42:15 -0800

Michael Bay has never made a flash game, but if he did, it would probably be Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar. Reviewers rave: Most players will find the difficulty level low and replay incentives limited. The artwork barely meets the minimum requirements to be comprehensible. The sound effects appear to be improvised vocalizations. Gameplay depth is non-existent.

Robots ruined the Economy

twoleftfeet — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:44:30 -0800

Robots ruined the economy. But even robots are affected by bad financial times. Nonetheless, robots help relieve the stress of financial worries. There are worse things than a financial crisis.

Special-snowflake Bots: A List

taz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:36:27 -0800

60+ One-Of-A-Kind Robots From Science Fiction. "You'd think a major advantage of robots is you can mass-produce them. They're just metal-and-circuit bodies. But science fiction is full of one-of-a-kind bots. Here are all the bots for whom they broke the mold."

Homo Evolutis

homunculus — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:15:35 -0800

Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis. "Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be ... different."

Hey Cat!

ooga_booga — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:29:18 -0800

Look at This Cat! Not to be confused with look at this dog, look at this muppet (wat a donut...), robots and donuts, monkeys and robots, monkeys on stilts, twin monkeys, koala twins, or celebrities without makeup. [via mefi projects]

Robots at War

homunculus — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:16:38 -0800

Robots at War: The New Battlefield. "It sounds like science fiction, but it is fact: On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, robots are killing America’s enemies and saving American lives. But today’s PackBots, Predators, and Ravens are relatively primitive machines. The coming generation of 'war-bots' will be immensely more sophisticated, and their development raises troubling new questions about how and when we wage war." [Via]

Kill all humans / assemble self into chair

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

The Best Robots of 2008 (via)

The Tale of Genji is 1000!

GenjiandProust — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:09:41 -0800

The Tale of Genji turned 1000 years old sometime around now, and Japan is celebrating with parties and dressing up. This lengthy rambling narrative may be the world's first novel, although that depends on how you define "first" and "novel." For the person who is technophilic and literary, there is a very cool robot that reads it to you (in Japanese -- sorry). Sadly, it is only a prototype. There is a recent board game, however. More useful links previously.

Beer, Robot.

darth_tedious — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:35:27 -0800

A robo-building long-haired Ph.D'd old hippie couple takes its baby to the bar.

Gregory Brotherton—metal sculpture

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:21 -0800

Gregory Brotherton. Figurative metal sculpture. Often shiny. Some using discarded machine parts.

Ride the Roomba!

Del Far — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:25:56 -0800

Pets have long been afraid of anything robotic, whether it be R oo m b a or Robo tic Dog, but times they are a'changing and Pets are fighting back and have learned to overcome.

AquaJelly & AirJelly

homunculus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:20:24 -0800

All Hail Robo-Jellyfish! Behold Festo Bionic Learning Network's AquaJelly & AirJelly.

Sculptor Nemo Gould makes robots out of found objects

lee — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:04:37 -0800

Sculptor Nemo Gould makes robots out of found objects.

Robot Guitar Technicians 2008 A.D.

awfurby — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:17:30 -0800

Having always found the process of setting up a guitar slightly intimidating, I am so glad that there's now a robot that can do it for me. Plek is a German-designed system for mechanically adjusting the setup of your guitar. Short video here. I wonder what happens when the robot guitar tech meets the robot guitar?

Dalek prototype

homunculus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:50:28 -0800

Rise of the rat-brained robots. [Via]

Typewriter sculptures

dobbs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:51:41 -0800

I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. I do not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together- the process is entirely cold assembly. {flash, sound}