Archive for the Art Category
Soviet Era Robot Illustrations
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
The A Journey Round My Skull blog has posted up some really neat Soviet era illustrations. The illustrations are by E. Benyaminson for the book Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko.
The images are being released under a Creative Commons license and feature a robotic hand playing chess in one and a robotic maid in another.
Check out all the amazing illustrations at A Journey Round My Skull.
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Tags: book, illustrations, robots, Soviet
Robotic Sculpture From the 1960′s
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
The Senster is a robotic sculpture from the late 1960′s commissioned buy Phillips and made by Edward Ihnatowicz. It resided from 1970 – 1974 at Evoluon.
The 15 foot long sculpture consisted of welded steel tubing, microphones and a computer. It also employed doppler radar.
The sculpture reacted to visitor behavior and sound.
Click through for a grainy, but interesting video.
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Funktionide Robot
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Most robots resemble something humanoid like Data from Star Trek or the programmable humanoid robots that play soccer. Some robots like the Roomba actually perform useful functions.
Well, along comes Funktionide by Stefan Ulrich to shatter all pre-conceived notions as to what a robot is and looks like. Stefan calls Funktionide an “emotional robot”.
Yup, that’s right, the white blob on the couch next to the guy is a robot.
Click through for a video and watch the robot breathe.
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Robot 13: Colossus! Issue 2
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
The comic book Robot 13 has a new issue out called Colussus!
This issue continues with Greek mythology theme and has our hero Robot 13 fighting against a giant Phoenix. Robot 13 is not quite sure who he is, but continues to ward off evil mythological creatures and save mankind.
The issue is available for pre order and will ship on October 16 for a measly $6.00, including shipping.
See our previous post on issue 1 here.
Robot 13: Colussus! can be ordered online from Blacklist Studios.
Tags: comics
