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See the robot to the left? That’s the Neatoramabot! I’ve been collecting links on robots for some time, but couldn’t decide on a title picture until this guy made his debut. The Neatorama Store is now open, where you can get t-shirts with the Neatoramabot and the Neatoramanaut (designed by Apelad) on them, plus designs from other artists and t-shirts with internet memes. There are soem pretty cool designs. When you’re finished shopping, come back and enjoy some robot jokes, links, and videos right here. I’ll wait.



MST3K Robot Rumpus (via Ectoplasmosis)

Robot Dance, featuring Princess, Gothgrrl, and me. I parked this elsewhere due to the autoplay music.

Robots that will make you laugh.

Treating the fear of robots, particularly Roombas.

LOLbots.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a tutorial on building your own little walking Bristlebot out of a toothbrush and a pager motor. The result is cute and will impress the kids. You can build several and make them race -if you can get them all going in a straight line!

This sociable robotic weight-loss coach will give you puppy-dog eyes if you eat that ice cream.

Gordon Bennett makes robots from found objects. He was inspired by Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy. These are for sale, and no two are alike. I want one! (via Everlasting Blort)

The 50 best movie robots. (via Metafilter)

Bender Casemod.

You can teach a robot to swim, if its a robotic fish!

Firefighting bug-shaped German robots.

Jokes made by robots, for robots.

Name That Robot
Created by OnePlusYou
How well you you know pop culture robots? Take the Name That Robot quiz! I didn’t do so well. You can probably beat my score of 63%. (via The Presurfer) Here’s another test that is supposed to be about the Transformers movie, but it covers a lot of media robots. In fact, I got most of them right, even though I’ve never seen the Transformers. (via Nag on the Lake)

The Bender Beer Brewing Project.

Cucumber Robot (via Engadget)

When you go to grab some of this salad, it will grab you right back! It’s a robotic hand made of cucumbers. From MAYA : Make.

Build your own robot and make him dance! (music NSFW)

The Real Transformers. Robots have come a long way.

You might think that having a robot solve your Rubik’s Cube takes the fun out of the toy. But robots are cool, and Straydog Scraps has eight different puzzle-solving robots, with videos.

LIES

(via Bits and Pieces)
John was a salesman’s delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.

One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.

It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late.

“Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?” asked John.

“Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project,” said Tommy.

The robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him completely out of his chair.

“Son,” said John, “this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school.”

“We went to Bobby’s house and watched a movie.” said Tommy.

“What did you watch?” asked Marsha.

“The Ten Commandments.” answered Tommy.

The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair once more.

With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, “I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen.”

“I am ashamed of you son,” said John. “When I was your age, I never lied to my parents.”

The robot then walked around to John and delivered a whack that nearly knocked him out of his chair.

Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said, “Boy, did you ever ask for that one! You can’t be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!”

With that the robot immediately walked around to Marsha and knocked her out of her chair.

Defective (via Ursi’s Blog)

Previously at Miss Cellania: Robots and Robot Sex

Thought for today: I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. -Jack Handy

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Posted on Wednesday, 05.14.08 @ 12:39AM by Registered CommenterMiss Cellania in | Comments3 Comments

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I love the cucumber robot video! Another video from the talented folks at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute is this one, about their modular snake robots that can climb, crawl, shimmy, swim, shine a light and take videos with tiny cameras on their heads:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~biorobotics/projects/modsnake/
05.14.08 @ 08:56AM | Unregistered CommenterMarilyn Terrell
How I love the internet and it's robot humor.

I've done some myself:

http://www.fengtastic.com/?p=111
05.14.08 @ 05:00PM | Unregistered CommenterFeng
After reading the book "How To Survive A Robot Uprising: Tips On Defending Yourself Against The Coming Rebellion" by Daniel H. Wilson, I will have no robots, period. Even the robo-carwash gives me the heebie jeebies ;-)

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