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Transformers 2 - Megatron look leaked?

September 23, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: decepticons, megatron, Robots, transformers

The rumour and spoiler mills have been busy over the past months, new character spots are amongst our favourites and of course some thrilling action capture too but the question remained, if Megatron returns how will we recognise him…. Well this could be his new guise!

LEGO Terminator robot - I’ll be bricks!

September 23, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: lego, mindstorms, NXT, Robots, terminator

We’ve been impressed with with an eerie hybrid creation called the Elvinator and had our credit cards at the ready for the replica DVD player paying homage to the Terminators head and this home build makes it straight onto our podium.

Automaton ad shows robots taking over

September 22, 2008, 1:44 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: adverts, automaton, gas, Japan, Robots, utility

This rather odd but highly entertaining advert comes to you courtesy of Tokyo Gas and is the brief story of a chap who brings this female form robot into his home for a lesson on……….Utilities.

Robotic sun seeking machine

September 22, 2008, 9:59 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: Robots, Solar, sun

This is Anomalie, a DIY build who spends every moment of his waking day trundling around looking for strong light sources to feed his insatiable appetite for solar power.

Transformers 2 - The twins in action

September 19, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: autobot, decepticon, ice cream, Robots, transformers

We’ve spoken of the “Twins” character in the past, and there was some speculation that the Ice Cream van character was a red herring. Well, it seems that isn’t the case - we’ve stumbled across some video footage and a call sheet from the set, posted online by someone who must spend his entire life snooping about the streets sniffing out this stuff… and hallelujah to him!

Flying robot keeps an eye on the Pope

September 19, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: defence, flying, lourdes, military, pope, Robots

During a recent visit to Lourdes, his right Holy one Pope Benedict XVI (guarantee that comes up in a pub quiz soon) has his every move tracked by an unmanned aerial vehicle. It’s certainly the direction we’d expect his protection to be coming from - but perhaps the UAV was in case the big fella upstairs was busy.

Military machine adapted for medical use

September 18, 2008, 1:30 pm by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Prototypes, Robots Tags: africa, medicine, military, Robots, uav

Normally used for reconnaissance missions and bombing sorties, UAVs’ (unmanned aerial vehicles) vast internal technology has been unleashed for more peaceful pursuits in the shape of this delivery service in rural Africa.

Football robot available for reasonable transfer fee

September 18, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Robots Tags: cambridge, football, Robots, soccer, striker, Toy

From a division of Cambridge University we never knew existed comes this rather decent remote controlled footie player. This straightforward DIY build comes in lower than a Sunday league player transfer fee, and your fixed wage bill is the price of a few AA’s every so often.