Ready for the next generation of robot combat? Syfy has greenlit and
shot the first season of a new show where eight-foot-tall state-of-the-art humanoid robots will rock ‘em and sock ‘em in a boxing cage until one is defeated..insidetv.ew.com
It was 50 years ago this coming Sunday that the Jetson family first jetpacked their way into American homes.
The show lasted just one season (24 episodes) after its debut on Sunday September 23, 1962, but today “The Jetsons” stands as the single most important piece of 20th century futurism…smithsonianmag.com Continue reading »
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981… factoryfifteen.com

Nemo Gould was born to artist parents in 1975, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Named after the protagonist in Windsor McKay‘s comic strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” Gould’s work
has fittingly evolved to reflect the images and mythology of comic books and Science Fiction… nemomatic.com
Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab decided to see what would happen if they put two chatbots face to virtual face and got them started talking to one another. Things didn’t go quite as crazy as might have been expected, but a fair amount of pointless argument, passive aggression, and random hilarity did ensue… spectrum.ieee.org
People like to speculate that the landing of an extraterrestrial ship on Earth could open doors to advances in technology
through reverse engineering of alien space-tech. But now the folks over at CyberCraft Robots have gone and done exactly the opposite…io9.com
Sometimes technology just gets a little too creepy for its own good. This robotic singing head, created by researchers
at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei, is the perfect example…geekosystem.com