giant robot roguelike role playing game (...) Features include random plot generation

"it should be possible to develop a software program where TV scripts are created based on previous episodes"

"a computer to guide users through a formal confession, strictly according to church doctrine. Once the sinful tally is recorded, the machine calculates penance and prints it out for the penitent"

"technology that easily transforms an ordinary digital photograph of a face into a living 3D animation that can blink and move its eyes, turn its gaze to follow the movement of the mouse cursor, express a range of emotions, sneeze and more"

"Hussein Chalayan created six mechanical dresses that would transform from one era to another, using embedded technology and smart wires"

speech synthesizer for the Zx Spectrum

"Robots could one day demand the same citizen's rights as humans, according to a study by the British government."

"What is a Robot? What do we want robots to do in the future? What can they do now? Can robots have personalities? Can a fully-functional conscious robot be developed? If so, would it be human? And should it have rights?"

to understand the science, engineering and social role of robotics and embedded intelligence. Our multidisciplinary approach aims to create autonomous devices capable of working independently, with each other, or with us in our human society

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"The idea is that only a robot would be stupid enough to enter all that crap when you ask it, so you can reliably filter for humans."

"Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro"

"With cameras for eyes and microphones for ears, and with 197 tactile sensors embedded in the layer of soft silicone skin covering its entire body...."

Simple, small, ugly silly stupid game, but the ai/physics makes it hilarious. Should be renamed to Drunk Sumotori, because they're so clumsy :p

Biomimetic Soft-Bodied Robots (Science Fiction in the News)

"Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose."

motor art and sculptures

remake of a classic wireframe 3D game in a kind of Tron aesthetic

A collection of Ultraman clips. There are battles with nutty monsters and several intros to the series, this one in particular is plain sublim.
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Back in the good old days of B-Movies , pulp magazines or comics you could sometimes see a scene like the one to the left: A monster or robot carrying off a fainted heroine in his arms. Find out more about the "carry phenomenon" here !