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Fast, moves the robot legion.
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Fast, moves the robot legion.

Do you remember five years ago when robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics released those videos of their creation, Atlas, dangling from

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Evil Thomas The Tank Engine robot (with flame thrower).
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Evil Thomas The Tank Engine robot (with flame thrower).

There’s garden variety evil and then there’s the evil Thomas The Tank Engine robot (with flame thrower). It’s a standard

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Jeff 1000 - Summer Glau dates robots . . . true?
Short movie

Jeff 1000 – Summer Glau dates robots . . . true?

An unusual little skit from Summer Glau in which Jeff 1000 proves more than just a killing machine. Maybe. Hey, he’s only

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FilmsScifi

Chappie . . . Five’s alive!

Another movie entry into the A.I.s becoming sentient – and possibly human – subgenre. This film is from the brains

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Automata - the robot strikes back (Antonio Banderas movie trailer).
FilmsScifi

Automata – the robot strikes back (Antonio Banderas movie trailer).

In the science fiction film Automata, Antonio Banderas is a Robo-Hunter/Blade Runner-type insurance agent in the future tracking down robots that

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Vbat of the future.
ScienceStar Wars

DARPA build air-robot based on Star Wars droid.

Here’s a nice video of the US defence tech organisation DARPA playing with their hovering V-bat robot – a droid

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Remote control Transformer robot.
Kit

Remote control Transformer robot.

For a mere £13,ooo you could have a real transforming remote control car-to-robot toy, from the Japanese firm Brave Robotics

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Loved WALL-E so much, he built a real one.

Mike Senna is a man who knows what he likes and likes what he blooming well knows. When he saw

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