This Week in Creepy Robots: Archive

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“I can’t decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to...”

– A. O. Scott

Jul 1st

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I Can Has Cheeseburger Robot?

What is up with all the robots starting to shill for fast-food chains? First, there’s a schlocky cardboard box robot eyeing up a SONIC sundea shake: At the other end of the spectrum, Carl’s Jr. goes with a more visually upscale bot with laser beam eyes to sell us on their chicken sandwich: The common thread here is robots want our fast-food and are willing to destroy humankind...

Jul 1st

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“I’ve seen a lot of reviews that compare the movie to Michael Bay dangling...”

– Rob Bricken, Topless Robot

Jun 30th

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“Faced with this quantity of hardware, this degree of technical sophistication,...”

– Dana Stevens, Slate.com

Jun 29th

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Eyeborgs: The Robopocalypse will be Televised

Imagine a world plagued by crime and terrorism so bad that the only solution is to deploy a swarm of small robots with cameras to keep an eye on everyone. On the one hand, that totally sounds like a recipe for disaster and the stuff of my nightmares: Little cyborg cameras running around watching your every move? Talk about creepy robots! But then hand this dystopian scenario over to Crimson Wolf...

Jun 29th

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“Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is a visually...”

– Roger Ebert

Jun 29th

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Jun 29th

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Dalek Dress: COORDINATE! ACCESSORIZE!

There is no stopping the slow march of dalek invasion of of our everyday lives. First came the dalek cake and then the dalek soap, and now a dalek dress for everyone who thought their wardrobe just needed a little galactic xenophobic terror. (h/t Global Geek News)

Jun 28th

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Eccerobot: Behold! It's Some Kinda Creepy

Swiss roboticists have created what some claim is the world’s most advanced robot, which might be true if by “advanced” you mean “super creepy.” You see, Eccerobot has bones and tendons just like a real human boy, though for some reason its builders forgot to put skin on those bones. Ecci also has one big eye like a cyclopse and it moves sort of like a drunken...

Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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Obama the Robot Slayer

When President Obama visited Carnegie Mellon University today, he told the crowd there that one of his jobs as commander-in-chief is to “keep an eye on robots,” so I’m hopeful the $70 million he pledged to spend on R&D will be used primarily to find ways of defeating the androids when once they rise against humankind.

Jun 24th

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Jun 24th

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Jun 24th

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Jun 22nd

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This robot that separates waste from recyclables could be the first step towards a real life WALL-E. And this seems like a really good job for a robot to do: something necessary and beneficial but repetitive and mindless nonetheless. I wonder, though, would this robot classify people is recyclable material or waste product?

Jun 22nd

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Jun 22nd

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Patrick Flanagan seems like a pleasant enough fellow, until he morphs into the human/cyborg hybrid known as JAZARI!

Jun 22nd

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Jun 22nd

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“We’re looking at the first robot that can disappoint its parents.”

– Stephen Colbert

Jun 21st

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Jun 20th

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Some past glory from the Onion, a cautionary report that raises fears about the increasing power and influence of robots in our society. That’s the sort of hard-hitting journalism for which the Onion deserves a Pulitzer, so says Tom Hanks.

Jun 20th

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