This Week in Creepy Robots: Archive

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Sep 30th

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Sep 30th

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Sep 29th

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Sep 29th

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Sep 29th

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Sep 28th

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This piece from Slate will not ease your fears about a robot uprising.

Sep 27th

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Sep 27th

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Sep 24th

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Sep 24th

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Sep 24th

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My fear that robots will take over the world and exterminate us humans has been replaced by the fear that robots will take over the world and force us to be entertained by their theme park comedy act.

Sep 24th

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20th Century Fox Sets Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Caves Of... →

Similar to I, Robot (which Fox turned into a hit film with Will Smith), The Caves of Steel is a murder mystery that takes place 1,000 years in the future, on an overpopulated Earth where there is a phobia about robots. Overpopulated Earth? Fear of robots? Sounds like a modern-day story to me.

Sep 24th

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Sep 23rd

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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Sep 21st

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Sep 21st

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Need to load test your iPad app by taking 10,000 pictures? Get a LEGO robot to push that shutter button.

Sep 20th

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Sep 20th

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The robots are now taking over origami. Where will it end?

Sep 19th

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Sleep easy knowing this little dog stands vigilant against the inevitable robot uprising.

Sep 18th

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Sep 18th

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Roland Emmerich Talks SINGULARITY →

Yes, he who brought you 2012, 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow is making a new film about what will happen to humanity when the Kurzweil’s singularity finally becomes a reality. Cue GCI robot army.

Sep 18th

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Sep 16th

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Sep 16th

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NASA, VASC to Help Local Boy Scouts Earn New... →

Hopefully they are training those young scouts how to defend humanity against robot attack.

Sep 16th

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The Machine, a short film by Rob Shaw, beautifully illustrates humanity’s hubris in creating technology that then runs amok. In other words, it scares the pants off me. The Machine is being screened at Graphation, a film festival all about robots and zombies and the confluence of movies and graphic novels. If you’re into that sort of thing.

Sep 16th

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Japan robot to attempt Hawaii triathlon →

“The robot will encounter a lot of hardships on its way, but I hope it will overcome them all and succeed in the end.” This same robot super athlete walked 500 km from Tokyo to Kyoto. Bigger, faster, stronger … humankind is doomed.

Sep 15th

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Sep 14th

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Robot Drones Hack Your WiFi →

From Gizmodo: The SkyNET drone is a modified $300 Parrot quadcopter with a Linux computer, 3G card, a GPS unit and two Wi-Fi cards. This is how it works: Controlled by a botmaster using 3G, the drone or group of drones fly over any urban area looking for Wi-FI networks. As they find them, they automatically try to break in. Once they get inside the network, it searches for personal...

Sep 13th

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