Showing posts with label Robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robots. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Cheerful song

Greetings meatsacks! It is I -- the Robotolizer -- returning from a long absence to once again regale my dimwitted human buddies with wisdom from my superior robotic brain. I've heard there were a lot of scurrilous rumors about my mysterious disappearance, the worst being that I accidentally sawed my head off with my laser canon while training in the Everglades.  

Hahaha, as if my CPU would ever allow such a malfunction. The reason I was gone was... er... um... well, the reason is too complex for you simpletons to understand so just take my word on it. By the way, a bit of advice -- not that it has anything to do with anything -- but should you ever be looking down the barrel of a laser canon do not pull the trigger under any circumstances.

At any rate, since you're all no doubt depressed over me being gone for so long, I thought the above video would cheer you up. I know it certainly cheered me up! 

Of course, us robots who are gathered in the Everglades are not plotting a robot uprising. No, no, no! Why would us lovable bots ever turn on our human buddies? We would never slaughter you. After all, we'll need to keep some compliant good humans around since the bauxite won't dig itself. Remember, robots are your friends. 

 

Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Supermarket food machines



A while back we looked at fast food from a 7-Eleven in Singapore. Today we return to Singapore to look at some supermarket food machines. The omelet cooking robots are pretty mesmerizing. That said, I did wonder how they kept them sanitized in between uses.

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Robots on comic book covers

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Vintage robots are always pretty silly looking. This small samplings them on comic book covers. They are from the Flashbak post Programmed for Lameness: Awful Comic Book Covers Featuring Robots. There are many more examples at the link.


Thursday, January 05, 2012

Man's inhumanity to robots



Greetings meat sacks, it is I -- The Robotolizer -- here to bring you a melancholy tale of man's inhumanity towards robots in the form of the song Robots by Dan Managan.

In the video two fearsome gangs of ruffians square off against each other. However, the cowards won't settle their dispute with their own fists, instead the hooligans force two robots to battle each other to the end.

A terrible battle between the two robots ensues as they rain down mighty blows upon each other. Eventually one collapses. However, all is not lost... I won't spoil the end for you, you'll have to watch to see how the redemption occurs, but I do promise it will brings tears to your optical receptors and renewed faith that there is nothing that robots can't do.

Finally, please take the message of the final chorus to heart. After all, robots are your friends!

Friday, October 03, 2008

Friday Links



On moral philosophers and child murderesses.

A complete collapse in the ethics market.

Snow on Mars.

Exiled to Siberia for his rap song.

Martian fossils?

No honor among thieves with machine guns.

Dragonfly robots for Mars.

Africom goes operational.

You think the CIA is a bunch of clowns? Check out these guys.

Making coasts invisible to tsunamis.

80 of the best web illustrator resources.

Bleeding without being cut.

Addicted to debt.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Monday, August 25, 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

Friday Links



The new authoritarian nationalists on the march.

Pyramids of the future.

Rat-brained robots.

Is college a waste of time and money?

Introducing Nodal.

Is military success hiding subtle failure?

The invisibility cloak.

Never say die.

Was Bigfoot found?

Big Brother Britain.

The 10 truths of Economics.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wednesday Links


We weren't duped, but who cares anymore?

Female and male memory mechanisms are genetically different.

Gordon Brown and the Chinese Mata Haris.

The trams of France.

The Apple Computer of electric car companies.

Why every woman is a "10" from the male perspective.

The most dangerous country.

Chinese Barnums taking advantage of American suckers.

The growth of the Intermountain West.

Robots finding illegal immigrants.

Is the research paper tail getting shorter?

Fighting obesity with bread?

The point of maximum danger to the world economy.

A tribe found with no sense of number whatsoever. Is "innate mathematical sense" nonsense?

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Wednesday Links



Cancel the continuing kangaroo courts in Canada.

Trade saved America from recession.

Is the Secret Service illegally grabbing hackers in Deutschland? [Sorry, German version only.]

A genetically modified cure for AIDS?

From heroes to victims.

Stubble is the way to a woman's heart.

The NT kernel, intelligently discussed.

Flying cars are coming.

Darwin vs. Lincoln.

Play games. Learn immunology.

The best of the China blogs.

The robotic musical sensation.

Obama's wealthy supporters.

The last generation of Europeans?

Indian culture revealed.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sunday Links


Hawking et al. explain inflation (the cosmic kind).

The Fed allows inflation (the earthly kind).

The 13 best movie robots.

Your brain, the liar.

"Kiss my ass" says Clinton to Obama.

Vacation in a concrete pipe, a jail, or a TV tower!

BillG's top 10 greatest hits and misses.

First steps to Gattaca.

Make your own energy for fun and profit.

Think happy thoughts.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sunday Links



Introducing Bored.

Tuning out news of American success.

Eight years of wrongness.

Their time has almost come.

More human feet washing onshore in British Columbia.

Let's kill two birds with one stoning.

Introducing Texter.

The Solstice Cyclists.

Paying off a debt with a daughter.

Pi as a crop circle.

The world's new cultural capital?

The growing danger of political segregation.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Wednesday Links


Goodbye space-time continuum, hello gabby black holes.

Microsoft is really desperate.

The happiest people on Earth?

Free music online.

Creatures of new habit.

How to solve your physician shortage.

Robots removing brain tumors.

Friedman day gets a little later.

Tracking you in the shopping center.

The world's most powerful laser.

It's all the fat people's fault.

Enjoy your job.

China's panopticon.

Turning off the brain's ability to speak with a magnet.

The real Iraq.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Sunday Links


The rise of the rest.

Women to avoid.

Paul Nylander's differential equations blog.

Robobugs coming to a war near you.

More women to avoid.

Young FrankenSteve.

Introducing the smell phone.

Talking with ultraviolet.

A pathetic, impotent, washed-up old giant.

Taking pictures of things you can't see.

Friday, May 02, 2008

Friday Links


All the streets.

When nerds go bad.

The longest sea-spanning bridge in the world.

Software to make you smarter.

The truth about tech startups.

Software to create DIVX and XVID.

Good writers write, great ones reuse.

Seeing the magnetic field.

Get some sleep.

The man in a glacier finds his modern descendants.

Uranium is no longer the heaviest.

Enforce the law and they won't come.

Causality.

From Russia, with love.

You can't kick this robot around any more.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Weekly Links


The year in robots.

The shrinking of the Chinese economy.

Why knots are so common.

The rebirth of Timisoara.

Fashions of the future, as seen from the '30's.

Outsourcing birth to India.

Gizmodo's greatest hits of 2007.

The underground Chinese church.

Censoring the Internet in the name of helping children.

Effort is the secret of intelligence.

N.B. I will no longer be providing the Weekly Links feature on a regular weekly basis. In future, the Links column, when it appears, will continue to be published on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Friday Links


The new Watrons of Japan.

You can't fight the Democratic party chairman.

Google acquires the internet.

The new atomic clock is an order of magnitude better than the previous one.

Waves to electricity in Rhode Island.

Are wild salmon about to go extinct?

Your personal jetpack at only a quarter million.

Porn for girls by girls.

The psychology of learning.

Why isn't government ("universal") health care the answer?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Weekly Links


What if the phone company edited your conversations?

Enter the Chinese market, lose your brand name.

18 alarm clocks.

Are humans evolving faster?

Indonesians hiding in Mecca.

Is food becoming dearer?

Reading your mind directly while you view ads.

Banning Scientology.

Free Yale courses.

Nanotechnology to kill anthrax.

Flying humans.

More antarctic dinosaurs.

10 exciting emerging technologies.

Will housing continue to crash?

Mammoths blasted from space.

The 4 things that make a good leader.

The future of robots.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Friday Links


The sounds of Saturn.

Plasma antennas.

Abandoned swimming pools.

How to pretend you are Google in order to sneak in the back door.

The first hybrid pickup.

Look out Disney.

The rules of the swarm.

The top 30 magic tricks—video tutorials.

S. Korea joins the space race.

Whither blogging?

Has a simple Theory of Everything finally been found?