Robots
Compressorhead
Their homepage here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 16, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Robots
Miss Honeywell
Miss Honeywell, advertised as being the world's first robotic woman, was a fake, but not in the obvious way. Reportedly, she was actually a he — actor Jeremy Sebastian.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 01, 2013 -
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Category: Robots, 1960s
The Shark From Jaws
Actually, it's the shark from Jaws 2, but I assume Spielberg used something similar for Jaws. For full body shots of the shark, he used an animatronic model called Bruce.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 13, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, Robots, 1970s
The EyeSee Mannequin
It's the newest innovation in mannequin technology. It watches customers with the camera installed in its eye, recording details such as age, race, and gender. It also keeps an eye out for shoplifters. Be cool to have one of these as a home security camera. Keep it standing in the window, watching everyone who walks up to the door. [Yahoo! News]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 24, 2012 -
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Category: Inventions, Robots, Technology
If typists were robots, what would they type?
"To Serve Humanity" was the first title that came to mind. Any other possibilities?
The robot in the ad was a 1930s-era model that went by a number of names including Mary Ann, The Roboter, Alpha, and Astra. Read more about her here.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 11, 2012 -
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Category: Robots, Advertising
Delivery Boy
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 26, 2012 -
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Category: Explosives, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Movies, Robots
Tobor the Great
Does the world need a sequel to Tobor the Great?According to wikipedia, someone at Diamond World Pictures thinks it does. But this is a case where I'm not sure whether to believe wikipedia.
Bonus strangeness: some guy built a full-size Tobor replica.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 24, 2012 -
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Category: Movies, Robots
Robot Clappers
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 02, 2011 -
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Category: Robots, Asia
Leave It to Roll-Oh
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 13, 2011 -
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Category: Domestic, Robots, Advertising, 1940s
Cool Robots TV promo
I guess this is from the T4 channel (England?) and a mash-up of some robot promotional spots.T4 idents from double g studios on Vimeo.
Fun stuff -- gotta love the robots!!
Posted By: gdanea - Mon Jan 17, 2011 -
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Category: Robots
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