Posts Tagged there will be robots
A Damn Fine Short SciFi-Film: Aaron Sims’ ARCHETYPE , ‘Your Memories are Just a Glitch’
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Robots on February 10, 2012
Official Synopsis
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.
Directed by: Aaron Sims
starring: Robert Joy (Land of the Dead, CSI:NY) and David Anders (Heroes, 24).
What We Learned: Special effects and animation veteran Aaron Sims released his $0 budget and completely unfunded labor of love, ARCHETYPE, on the Internets January 20, 2012. After watching it the first time we decided on the spot that ARCHETYPE is pretty fucking cool!
Like most Hollywood movies, all the usual tropes are covered. Unlike most Hollywood big action fare Aaron Sims made those tropes engaging and worth watching. We’ve already viewed this short more times than we care to mention.
Seven minutes is just not enough.
We hope this taste of the ARCHETYPE world generates enough buzz and gains financial backers so that he can fully visualize his labor of love. Note: we’re almost certain the concept art of Sims complete vision is featured in the credits. Stick around and watch those for once.
Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! This has been a labor of love on a budget of $0 and it makes it all worth while when we see other poeple responding to it. Thank you! – Aaron Sims
Official sites: http://www.aaronsims.com/ | http://www.archetype-movie.com/
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There Will Be Robots: Android + Robot + Rubik’s Cube = Problem Solver
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Robots on October 26, 2011
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Halloween Moment of Who: DIY Radio-Controlled Dalek Pumpkin, Tiny Orangey Death Lantern
Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Robots, Television on October 22, 2011
The Nerdist caught our eye with it’s ‘Make Cool Stuff: Halloween Edition’ featuring the robot Dalek pumpkin. They didn’t stop there, though. Be sure to check out their entire post.
Instructions on building the actual robot Dalek can be found on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
It’s a radio-controlled robotic Dalek that can move around and turn its head. Oh, and did I mention that it’s a pumpkin?
There Will Be Robots: Modified Ditch Witch is the Mother Alien Fighting Exo-Suit You’ve Always Wanted
Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, Science, Technology on October 21, 2011
Say what you will about the wonderful idea of having “loader technology”(please remember your ALIENS) but that Vice President of operations is going to regret calling that robot a slave.
“Engineers at Raytheon-Sarcos in Salt Lake City demonstrated a unique set of tele-operated robotic arms attached to a modified Ditch Witch. With no training at all, one immediately meshes with the feelings and actions of the machine. It mirrored everything one does with their arms, wrists and shoulders.”
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This is Halloween: Man Creates Animatronic Dancing Baby, Forces it to Dubstep
Posted by mistergroonk in Robots on October 17, 2011
People are making things like this in their homes.
Some times, just some times, we really like the 21st century.
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Robot Envy: Festo’s Aerodynamic SmartBird
Posted by mistergroonk in Animals, Science, Technology on June 22, 2011
What you see: an awesome display of biomimicry.
What we remember: the future as told by those partly metal, partly real.
Robot OMG: Geminoid Smiles for the First Time. Then We Smile and Secretly Cringe
Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, Technology, The Future on March 11, 2011
From the Geminoid DK You Tube comes the Geminoid robot smiling for the camera.
Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe’s plan is to build a robot that looks like him.
Friday Night Movie: ROBOT, Watch How Easily Kollywood Out-Awesomes Hollywood
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Robots on January 28, 2011
ROBOT is a BKollywood creation from Tamil cinema. It is completely batshit… and we’re loving it because of that.
We’re late jumping on the blog posting bandwagon for this flick. We have no excuse for that. We’re posting it now, dammit, and you’d do well to attend.
Below is a clip show of every movie robot trope, cliche, and action sequence ever conceived by the cinema world. Below is a clip show of fantastic awesome.
There Will Be Robots: Professor Malcolm MacIver’s Incredible Robot Ghost Knifefish
Posted by mistergroonk in Robots, Technology on January 21, 2011
The black ghost knifefish, which works at night in rivers of the Amazon basin, hunts for prey using a weak electric field around its entire body and moves both forward and backward using a ribbon-like fin on the underside of its body.
MacIver, a robotics expert who served as a scientific consultant for “Tron: Legacy†and is science advisor for the television series “Caprica,†has studied the knifefish for years. Working with Neelesh Patankar, associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of the paper, he has created mechanical models of the fish in hopes of better understanding how the nervous system sends messages throughout the body to make it move.