“What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style? “
Pacmba may have been a Roomba that looked like Pac-Man, but for all intents and purposes, these iRobot Create robots are the game of Pac-Man.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.10 at 05:49
I wouldn’t put it past Data to do a little bit of experimenting, but C-3PO? That’s shocking. I am officially scandalized. And so is R2-D2, who’s probably going to come after Data with that silly little tazer of his.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.10 at 03:09
Walls. They’re all around you. They keep your roof from falling on your head, they keep your neighbors from seeing you naked, and they’re convenient to hang stuff on.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.09 at 03:19
Just because a real Keepon is too expensive for anyone to afford doesn’t mean that it’s not possible to make one for yourself, and it doesn’t even have to be (technically) edible.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.09 at 02:23
Dear Paro,
My name is Evan, and I am a very influential and handsome robot blogger. I met you at CES last January and was very impressed with your warmness and softness and squishyness and general omgIwantone-ness.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:47
Gravity sucks. Gravity especially sucks when you’re trying to get into orbit. It sucks because vehicles like the space shuttle expend most of their energy just hauling along the fuel they need to make it into orbit, instead of something useful like more payload or myself.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:05
This robot (its name is CARL) may not look especially biological (aside from the adorable little ears), but inside, it’s thinking with a computerized model of a rodent brain and interacting with the world through a “biologically plausible nervous system.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.06 at 05:00
There aren’t a lot of details on this updated version of Samsung’s robot vacuum, but like the version from last year, it’s already convinced one charming lady to get in bed with it, and who am I to refrain posting pictures of this sordid affair:
She looks happy, doesn’t she? I’m sure the robot performed quite admirably and did an excellent job cleaning her- no, no, I’m just going to stop right there before this gets entirely out of hand.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 05:12
If you can’t justify buying yourself a humanoid robot to play with, ask yourself this question: what would you do if a little wooden doll was stuck at the end of an obstacle course? Huh? Yeah, that’s right, you’d just stare helplessly as it continued to be little and wooden.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 04:25
If I don’t write about robot movies as much as I could here on BotJunkie, it’s because we tend to focus on robots that either are real, or have at least some realistic potential.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2009.11.05 at 02:32