A humanoid robot saved Warsaw from a pack of wild boars
Citizens in Warsaw are “delighted” with the robot.
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Robot breaks world record with 66-mile walk and cracks joke upon finish line
A Guinness World Record.
Follies on Ice: Showgirls, men in drag, an ice-skating chimpanzee, a robot, and Elvis
A vintage photo of skater Hans Leiter in drag performing in the Ice Capades in 1960. Over the last few weeks for reasons I can’t…
Floor plans of the homes from ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Mr. Robot,’ and other TV shows
Floor plans of the domiciles of fictional characters is not a new concept. As far back as the 1990s, an artist named Mark Bennett had…
Gary Numan’s 1978 blue jeans commercial featuring vampire robot punks
In 1978 Gary Numan, then still with Tubeway Army, did the vocals for a commercial for the English jeans manufacturer Lee Cooper. The commercial featured…
He was a robot: DM catches up with ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür
You know those Pink Floyd laser shows that set trippy visuals to either the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album or to a hodgepodge…
‘Love Letters From Craig’ serves up ‘casual encounters’ as read by a robot
“Love Letters From Craig” is the delicious brainchild of an Amsterdam-based company called Cartelle that appropriates and recontextualizes posts from the “casual encounters” section of…
‘Robot Monster,’ Lux Interior’s favorite B movie, a bad movie for bad people
“At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?” KDOC, the Orange County station that broadcast Wally George’s The Hot Seat, was also…
Finally, a robot to replace the Whitney Houston-sized hole in our hearts
Multi-talented musician, designer, and hacker Martin Backes from Germany has designed a robot to croon a pop ballad like a superstar from the ’90s. As…
The uncannily SEXY retro robot pinups of Hajime Sorayama
Hajime Sorayama’s porny futurism is one of those 1980’s aesthetics that is somehow simultaneously hilarious yet incredibly impressive. The cheeky pin-up “gynoids” are so sleek…