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Robot Romance
A new music video/short film by Belgian director Charles De Meyer for Amon Tobin‘s 2007 track Esther’s off Foley Room. I agree with a comment on YouTube, “I’d rather watch this than transformers.” Go...
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Thomas Jackson
Any time I’m tagging a post with art, photography, and robots you know it’s gotta be good. Great photos from New York photographer Thomas Jackson. (via i like this blog, with a quick 5-question...
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Robot Challenge #39: Design a robot that is made out of other robots
Robot Challenge is a web site run by my friend Dan and his son Roosevelt who possesses the rare ability to draw any type of robot you could possibly imagine. Apparently there is a bit of a backlog so...
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The Robot Book by Thomas Jackson
The Robot Book is the latest creation from Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Thomas Jackson (previously). It’s actually the culmination of a larger photo project he completed last year which...
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Sparebots
Lenny Lenfesteys creates these awesome tiny sparebots using spare computer parts, LEDs, and other electronic scraps. See also his collections of tiny planes, and wonderful tiny rockets. (via make)
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Light Painting with Roomba Vacuum Cleaners
These photos have apparently been around for a while, but this is totally new to me. An enterprising group of robotic vacuum cleaner owners have used LEDs affixed to the top of their Roombas to create...
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Miniature Toy Robots Made from Recycled Electronic Components
Portuguese product designer Marco Fernandes built some fun robots out of electrical components salvaged from the trash heap. So far Fernandes has designed nine figures as part of his R³bot series, I...
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Little Robot Friends: Customizable Robots with Evolving Personalities
Little Robot Friends from Toronto-based Aesthetec Studio are a series of tiny robots that can listen, sense light, detect touch, and communicate using infrared light. Each robot is mounted on a CNC...
View ArticleBox: A Groundbreaking Demonstration at the Intersection of Robotics,...
Produced by Bot and Dolly, a San Francisco-based design and engineering studio, this amazing clip was filmed entirely in camera and demonstrates a mixture of robotically controlled monitors,...
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Amazing Robotic Moves from Poppin’ John and the Robotboys
It’s been a while since we’ve had a solid bit of dancing here on Colossal. There are several inspired moments of choreography in this clip featuring Nick Nitro and Jeppe Long of the Copenhagen-based...
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A Village Encapsulated Inside a 5-Story Robot’s Head and Other Recent Murals...
This past month, Sheffield-based artist Phlegm (previously) revealed his latest mural, a 5-story tall robot on Chapel Street in Melbourne, Australia. The mechanical monster hides a village, or maybe...
View ArticleA Quirky Animated Short Featuring Musical Robots that Play Themselves
Here at Colossal we can’t stop jamming out to this animated short from London-based animation studio Animade featuring six bubbly musical robots designed to play themselves. Titled Robot & The...
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Miniature Toy Robots Made from Recycled Electronic Components
Portuguese product designer Marco Fernandes built some fun robots out of electrical components salvaged from the trash heap. So far Fernandes has designed nine figures as part of his R³bot series, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Little Robot Friends: Customizable Robots with Evolving Personalities
Little Robot Friends from Toronto-based Aesthetec Studio are a series of tiny robots that can listen, sense light, detect touch, and communicate using infrared light. Each robot is mounted on a CNC...
View ArticleBox: A Groundbreaking Demonstration at the Intersection of Robotics,...
Produced by Bot and Dolly, a San Francisco-based design and engineering studio, this amazing clip was filmed entirely in camera and demonstrates a mixture of robotically controlled monitors,...
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Amazing Robotic Moves from Poppin’ John and the Robotboys
It’s been a while since we’ve had a solid bit of dancing here on Colossal. There are several inspired moments of choreography in this clip featuring Nick Nitro and Jeppe Long of the Copenhagen-based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Village Encapsulated Inside a 5-Story Robot’s Head and Other Recent Murals...
This past month, Sheffield-based artist Phlegm (previously) revealed his latest mural, a 5-story tall robot on Chapel Street in Melbourne, Australia. The mechanical monster hides a village, or maybe...
View ArticleA Quirky Animated Short Featuring Musical Robots that Play Themselves
Here at Colossal we can’t stop jamming out to this animated short from London-based animation studio Animade featuring six bubbly musical robots designed to play themselves. Titled Robot & The...
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GridDrones: These Self-Levitating Nanocopters Might Be the Future of Smartphones
Starting tomorrow researchers will gather in Berlin for the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. The symposium features projects on computer-human interaction, web user interfaces,...
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Sci-Fi Inspired Cardboard Sculptures by Greg Olijnyk Feature Fully...
Photographs: Griffin Simm To balance out his working life as a graphic designer focused on 2-D digital projects, Greg Olijnyk creates cardboard sculptures in his free time. The remarkably refined...
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