The music video for MC Frontalot’s I’ll Form the Head is glorious.

And now, R’ha. Humanity doesn’t have a monopoly on AI rebellion.

Reminds me a bit of the Outer Limits episode “The Quality of Mercy.”

This present turns into a robot Santa Claus. It talks, does a little dance, performs mime, and judges your deeds with its lifeless glowing eyes.

Pacific Rim may be the giant-robots-punching-kaiju-monsters movie of my dreams. Or it may be terrible. Regardless, I’m looking forward to it.

This robotic lamp is right on the line between adorable and creepy.

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By Lauren Davis

This stern mechanical monk is a marvel of early automation; likely built in the 1560s, it is a completely self-acting device, with all of its clockwork mechanisms hidden beneath its cloak. Today, the clockwork monk can still scoot about, moving its mouth and arms in silent prayer.

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Boston Dynamics’ Pet-Proto robot is amazingly coordinated.

And now, a robot wheelchair that uses its wheels as legs to climb stairs. It’s pretty cool.

And now, Tears of Steel, a Dutch short film with giant robots, relationship problems, and brilliant special effects. The entire thing was crowdfunded, and the 3D software is open source.

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Death By A Thousand Robotic Paper Cuts

Without a doubt the most extreme paper-robot engineering I have ever seen. Of course, it’s the ONLY paper-robot engineering I have ever seen, so there’s that.

Wow. 

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