I like the Cybermen that the new show has given us so far. They aren’t quite as cool as the old cybermen, but they work. But judging by some of the show’s concept art, we could have gotten something much darker like the image above.
There’s also an image of a red Dalek with what looks like one multi-purpose arm. Hopefully they get to play with these designs in an actual episode some day.
Henry has been creating his army of miniature metal mechs for a few years now. Each and every one is handmade by Henry himself and a real work of art. As you can see, these are not just crafts thrown together. They are amazingly detailed sculptures. Head on over to Henry’s website for many awesome images of these guys.
The exhibition is titled “I… You… We… Robot: A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek”. This is robot art at it’s coolest, featuring artwork inspired by robots in various mediums, by over 70 artists. The exhibition is up from Jan. 29 to Feb. 10 at Space 242 in Boston. Gallery hours are Friday evenings 6:30-8pm and Saturdays 11:30am-1pm.
“Robot Age” is a series of illustrations published by Shōnen Sunday magazine in 1969, which offer a glimpse into a utopian future populated by all kinds of sophisticated robots. It’s always interesting to see what we thought our robot future might be like according to those in the past.
Some of it is very bizarre, like this robot nanny that feeds kids from it’s robot-nipple. Click through to check out the rest.
There’s a reason this little bot performed so well. Almost brings a tear to your eye.
Eric Bailey is an Oregon glass-blower who makes robot-shaped “scent-bottles”. The bottles are pretty awesome and if all glass bottles looked like this, no one would ever recycle.
“Last year, it began to enter my mind that it might be interesting to make a robot in glass, something I haven’t seen done before. I am also currently working on three designs for rocketships.”
Great work and we can’t wait for the rocketships.
Remember Joe Alterio’s charity, Robots and Monsters? The charity is now raising money for relief efforts in Haiti. If you donate, you’ll get a custom-drawn robot or monster created to your own specifications by a great artist.
The money raised will go to Doctors Without Borders, a French group that gives emergency health care. So send in your request, get a cool piece of robot/monster art and help some people in need.
Robotagger: GML + ABB4400 from Golan Levin on Vimeo.
Graffiti tagging robots will be the vandals of a post-apocalyptic world. We didn’t see that one coming, but there ya go.
In fact the week of January 4th, 2010 was designated GML Week celebrating Graffiti Markup Language (GML), a new XML file type designed for archiving graffiti tags. The F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology) group has been standardizing open source graffiti software packages like Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag, Eyewriter, and others, so that they will all be GML compliant.
The groups mission statement? “A new digital standard for tomorrow’s vandals.” Well, now some robot geeks at the CMU Studio for Creative Inquiry and the CMU Digital Fabrication Laboratory hacked an ABB 4400 series robot to paint graffiti on the walls.
If you are eagerly awaiting the next Wall-E movie, you may have a long wait. I doubt there will be a sequel. But if you must get your Wall-E fix, then check out Brian S. Berkovitz’s Wall-E 365 project, in which he will photograph the bot for an entire year.
It began just after Christmas 2009.
Sure, the giant Gundam statue is enormous, but how about an enormously expensive hand carved red wood version? It’s not the first wooden Gundam. One was released back in 2007.
It will cost you ¥99,750 (or $1069). The statue is over a foot tall and is being sold by legendary robot company Bullmark. It’s designed by Plex, an arm of Bandai that designs robot toys. So, do you have the spare scratch?
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