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Fast, moves the robot legion.
Science

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).
HumourWorld getting weirder

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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