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A Damn Fine Short SciFi-Film: Aaron Sims’ ARCHETYPE , ‘Your Memories are Just a Glitch’

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

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Halloween Moment of Who: DIY Radio-Controlled Dalek Pumpkin, Tiny Orangey Death Lantern

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?

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There Will Be Robots: Modified Ditch Witch is the Mother Alien Fighting Exo-Suit You’ve Always Wanted

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

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

What you see: an awesome display of biomimicry.

What we remember: the future as told by those partly metal, partly real.

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Robot OMG: Geminoid Smiles for the First Time. Then We Smile and Secretly Cringe

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.

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Friday Night Movie: ROBOT, Watch How Easily Kollywood Out-Awesomes Hollywood

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.

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There Will Be Robots: Professor Malcolm MacIver’s Incredible Robot Ghost Knifefish

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.

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Robot WTF: Georgia Tech Engineers Teach Robots to Lie. When the End Comes, the Blame Falls There.

Here’s a bedtime story your children will tell their children in order to scare them silly.

engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have constructed a bot that not only dupes its competitors, but actively lies, cheats, hides and steals to accomplish its treacherous goals. According to Tech’s Ronald Arkin, the group of scientists “developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machines,” while also developing ” techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered.”

Basically, when being pursued or tracked by an enemy, the running-robot recognizes the threatening situation, sends false signals and forges a trail in one direction before doubling back to hide. During tests, the stealth-bot successfully eluded its tracker 75-percent of the time. While the benefits seem numerous, particularly the potential for dispatching covert communications, Arkin claims to recognize the project’s “ethical implications” and “deleterious aspects.”

And yet, they did it anyway. When you look up “foolhardy” in future dictionaries you won’t find a damn thing. Because the robots will have destroyed all the dictionaries and the humans that made them.

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