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Real Steel Giveaway! Real Steal?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Us, robot geeks, love robot movies (…even if we sometimes complain about inaccuracies and fallacies), and Real Steel is a great robot movie now available on DVD and Blue-ray. So, in order to satisfy both your cravings for robots and your desire for entertainment, we are giving away three Blue Ray + DVD copies of Real Steel!

Real Steel Blu-ray Combo

Real Steel Blu-ray Combo

FREE MOVIE?! WANT!

That is right, we are giving away three of these combo Blue-ray + DVD boxes for free! To participate simply leave a comment below. Two random comments will be chosen on February 24th and the authors will receive the goodies.

What about the third Combo, you wonder? The third combo will be awarded to the most original/funny (but still relevant) comment. We will choose the comments that made us laugh, think or cry the most and send the author the third movie combo.

Want to see some sweet (and very anthropomorphic) robots? Check them out below.

What are you waiting for? Start commenting now!

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    The First Robot Film Festival Was a Success, New Robotic Stars Are Born

    Monday, July 25th, 2011

    On July 17th and 18th, the first Robot Film Festival took place in New York City. Organized by popular roboticist Heather Knight, the festival brought together robotic builders, engineers, artists, and robot lovers in general. As in other film festivals, there was a screening of the selected films, a red carpet ceremony, and several live performances by local artists throughout the event.

    Heather and Data at the Robot Film Festival

    Heather and Data at the Robot Film Festival

    See the festival welcome video below explaining the main “raison d’etre” of the festival.

    A notable participant to the festival was Nao 1337, the star of the short movie “Nao 1337 Audition“. The robot actively participated to the event, watched its own film and even walked the red carpet as shown in the videos below.

    Via Carlitos’ Contraptions and New Scientist

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      I’m Here, A Robot Love Story

      Monday, May 30th, 2011

      For all cinephiles out there, you are in for a treat. There is a new short film by Spike Jonze. It is a robot love story called “I’m here”.

      You can see the trailer below and you can go directly to the film website in order to have  full cinematic experience and see the entire movie for free. There are limited “screenings” per day so hurry up!

      The robots look amazing (as amazing as old IBM towers can be!) and the story line is quite nice. Go see it for yourselves and leave a comment below; tell us what you liked or even hated about it.

      Via @robotfilmfestival

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        Blinky is Your New Best Friend

        Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

        As announced previously, Ruairi Robinson’s short Blinky™ is now out and free for everybody to watch. Nevertheless, since this is sort of a horror film, viewer discretion is advised.

        We really like this short since the robots are depicted with a great sense of detail and realism. It also shows how robots in the near future could help us with everyday tasks. Of course, we also like the cliché horror flick side.

        Should we be afraid of robots now?

        Probably not. This movie raises the very interesting topic or robot ethics. This means that robots need to have a sense of what is right and wrong in order to be able to interact with human beings in everyday life. Blindly obeying every command given by a human, for instance, may not be a very good idea (as it is clearly shown in the short) ; a sense of ethics would allow a robot to discrimitate between good and bad commands.

        The video below clearly illustrates how ethics are being incorporated into robots, more specifically, into the Nao from Aldebaran.

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          How Hard can Impersonating a Robot Be?

          Friday, March 18th, 2011

          Humans tend to think that impersonating a robot is simply a matter of moving stiffly and talking in a silly way. In the hilarious video below, Simon Peg and Nick Frost impersonate two of the best known robots in the world, namely R2D2 and C3PO, which can be very challenging.

          Via College Humor.

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            The Arduino Documentary is Live and Open

            Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

            Arduino, the very popular open source microcontroller from Italy, is making headlines again. This time, its own documentary has been released and is free for everybody to watch.

            Arduino Documentary

            Arduino Documentary Poster

            The documentary was independently made and depicts the origins, the philosophy, and the great people involved in the Arduino movement. You can see the documentary in its entirety (and in HD!) below.

            Now that you know everything about Arduino, get your own at RobotShop and start hacking.

            Via Arduino Blog.

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              Bots High, Like Football for Geeks

              Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

              At RobotShop, we sometimes wonder where all the robot parts we sell end up, what robots are being made with them and which robots were successful and which were not.

              The impending release of Bots High, a documentary about a group of high school students who build combat robots to compete in the high school division of BotsIQ (the non-profit version of BattleBots, the former TV show), gives us some clues of where at least some of the parts we sold ended up.

              Tyler Bond and Fluffy

              Tyler Bond and Fluffy the Robot

              The documentary follows a group of students who build impressively complex and advanced robots with the objective of smashing, crushing and completely obliterating other equally complex robots. The matches are certainly fun to watch; sort of like sporting events but much, much geekier.

              The videos below show the nature of competition and the crazily powerful robots that participate in it.

              Keep watching for even more robotic destruction:

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                Real Steel Trailer Released

                Friday, December 10th, 2010

                The trailer for the upcoming DreamWorks movie Real Steel has been released! The movie is set in the near future and features robot fights which are a mix between the current robot wars competitions and human boxing. Hughes Jackman plays an underground robot maker and coach who gets a chance to win a large championship thanks to his latest creation.

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                  BLINKY: Do Not Trust the Happy Robot

                  Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

                  The trailer for the upcoming short film BLINKY by Ruairi Robinson has been released. See it below.

                  The film is set in a not so distant future and features a domestic robot that apparently turns into a rampaging killer…Either that, or it enjoys ketchup too much.

                  Blinky is happy

                  Blinky is happy

                  Via BotJunkie.

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                    Transcendent Man to be Launched in 2011

                    Monday, November 22nd, 2010
                    Sentient Robot

                    Sentient Robot

                    The trailer for the upcoming movie Transcendent Man has been out for some time and it has now been confirmed that the long awaited film will be released early next year (2011).

                    Transcendent Man introduces the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist who journeys the world offering his vision of a future in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are billions of times more intelligent…all within the next thirty years.

                    Although it is a bit hard to believe that humans will become infinitely intelligent cybernetic immortals within the next 30 years Ray Kurzweil seems to have some good arguments and some successful predictions done in the past.

                    For those unfamiliar with The Singularity as understood by Ray Kurzweil, you might be interested in the TED talk Below.

                    A slightly more negative view of the same future would be the Trailer for the upcoming Deux Ex game.

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