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Robot Sunday: Self-assembling, flying drones

Posted in Play on 19 June 2010 | Comments?
Tags: robotics, robots, robotsunday

Here’s another scary step towards a robot uprising. A group of researchers are developing robots that dock together and take off by themselves. Called the Distributed Flight Array, the group of robots roams around independently and assembles randomly to form a flying vehicle. The modules communicate with each other to control the platform’s flight.

Robot Sunday: World robot population

Posted in Play on 18 April 2010 | Comments?
Tags: robots, robotsunday

The numbers are in (with caveats, of course): there are 8.6 million robots in the world. Credit: Quasimondo on Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0

Robot Sunday: Is the future

Posted in Play on 14 March 2010 | Comments?
Tags: robots, robotsunday

(Well, there’s “robot” in it. *shrugs*) (In totally unrelated news, today is Pi Day. Yay!)

Robot Sunday: Arlan’s Bristol bots

Posted in In-between on 21 February 2010 | Comments?
Tags: art, comics, pinoy, robots, robotsunday

Fully articulated Transformer robots made from Bristol board. Credit: Arlan Esmeña. The artist for this astounding work is Arlanzandro Esmeña, great Pinoy komikero Gerry Alanguilan‘s collaborator in “Where Bold Stars Go to Die”. He sadly passed away last February 18, 2010. RIP, Arlan. (I haven’t had the pleasure of reading his work yet, but judging [...]

Robot Sunday: Cat pwns robot

Posted in Play on 14 February 2010 | Comments?
Tags: funny, humor, robots, robotsunday

If robots ever go ahead with their plan for an uprising, we can rely on these wonderful creatures to save us. Here’s one in training.