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Achilles vs Alexander in the first big fight scene in Robot Jox, a movie I haven't seen (yet!). I guess it's a 1990 film about two giant robots that fight in an arena.

Best YouTube comment, by Mysanthropyc: This film is a documentary, by the way. This really happened. This is how we won the Cold War.

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Fish, plankton, sea-greens and protein from the sea. … Overwhelming, am I not? Are you too startled? Am I too removed from your ken? … Box … Box … Box…

Iconic, but Box from Logan's Run is still the lamest robot/cyborg ever!

More on Box at Jeff's Robots, including an mp3 of Box's introductory speech!

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I don't know anything about these robots other than that everyone says they move "really smoothly and quickly for machines." And they do!

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The situational awareness mast (or Zippermast) from Geosystems Inc. is a telescoping linear actuator that can vertically translate a robot's sensor suite for better visibility. In this video, a Zippermast is affixed to an iRobot Packbot. For more details, see Hizook.com.

From YouTube via Trend Hunter.

"Stomach Pain." 2 January 2009:

WE THE ROBOTS is a comic strip published approximately weekly by Chris Harding.

Source: WE THE ROBOTS.

Controlled by a radio installed in a truck, a 400-pound robot can walk under its own power. The mechanical man, built by Reat Younger of Springfield, Mo., stands over six feet tall and weighs 400 pounds. Younger was intrigued by a robot he saw in a motion picture when he was a boy and started building his own automaton while he was in high school. He now is working on plans to make the robot walk through a complicated system of transmitters, receivers and relays.

Source: Modern Mechanix. Original published in Popular Mechanics, Oct 1948.

As MAKE says, "This may be the most disturbing robot video I've seen this year." For more creepy robots, check out the comments on the original MAKE post.

Source: MAKE: Blog and YouTube

Motoman SDA10, an industrial robot manufactured by Yaskawa Electric, demonstrating its ability to cook okonomiyaki at the International Next-Generation Robot Fair happening in Osaka.

As a chef, the Motoman relies on speech recognition technology to take verbal orders from customers. Using standard kitchen utensils, the robot mixes the okonomiyaki batter, pours it onto the iron grill, forms it into a round pancake-like disk, flips it, puts it on a plate when done, and applies condiments.

Source: Pink Tentacle via Rocketboom

Bre Pettis needed to prototype his Cherrytron 2000 robotic arm that he's making for Roboexotica, so he teamed up with Eric Skiff to make one. Adam Cecchetti also had a hand in the original design work.

To learn more about the popsicle stick robotic arm, get the design files, and to vote on the popsicle stick aesthetic vs. acrylic parts, visit Bre's blog.

Source: Bre Pettis and Vimeo

A special edition Robot Monday, brought to you on day three of my Wisconsin vacation. While I couldn't locate any footage of Woody, Elmwood Bank's (Racine) now-defunct robot, I was able to get a short clip from Tommy Barlett's Robot World attraction (Wisconsin Dells). I can't believe I've never seen it! Maybe Wednesday…

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