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World War’s a new CG short directed by Vincent Chai, recent graduate of University of Hertfordshire, UK: brimming with pre-Hiroshima era urban landscapes, gritty bullet-time robot kung-fu, Wolverine claws and an atomic bomb. Given that it’s really an amateur project, it’s amazingly fun (all done with Maya, Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects). Check the bonus features on Chai’s site! (via dvice)

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The reason why I really-really loved Robocop? I’ll honestly tell you, it was the ED-209 and whatever bad-ass robo machismo the show had, it was really the stop-motion mecha scenes and not Murphy at all. (And I bet half of you really feel the same. Yes? No? Comment!) So it comes as a heart-warming surprise, seeing MORAV, and the more you read off the website and the more you follow the links, the more intriguing the whole show becomes.

Morav is basically a military drama with mecha/sci-fi overtones, gritty realism in a Middle Easternish region with the mecha work all done in stop-motion, not CG. Fon Davis, the series creator sez we have enough chronology to do webisodes, comic books, a television series and motion pictures without touching the same story twice. We have always remained flexible since we do not yet know what production opportunities will arise first. (And if you check Fon Davis on IMDB, you’ll be instantly impressed seeing him having worked on all six Star Wars movies, Matrix 2-3 and so forth.) Not much material on YouTube yet, but hang on, this looks promising. (Robots moved with telemetry suits, oh my god, yes.) (via cyberpunk2020.de)

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Where do robots come from? What’s grey goo really and what’s the “Uncanny Valley”? Robots, androids and cyborgs are here and without going too deep into the 20th century cyborgization trends, the Chicago Tribune gives a list of ten to base our satanic inquiries upon.

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Ne. Picture found on LJ (original post here), no source available.

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Filipino cy-fi movies are apparently crawling into the spotlight. Right after Resiklo, we have news on Killdroid, a movie in which a carnal teenie girl gets to hump an android killer from a government-funded secret project. It sounds like porn, but unfortunately it isn’t - and there aren’t any trailers, either. Check IO9’s newsflash in which we get to know that any teenie girl who wears black and white is most probably a goth.

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Trailer of science-fiction movie about life in world populated by robots, life-like androids.

News from ANN:
Studio Rikka has opened the official Japanese website for its Eve no Jikan science fiction move and posted a trailer in high-quality and low quality versions. Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Mizu no Kotoba, Pale Cocoon) directs this “non-hard science-fiction” story about everyday life in a world populated by robots and life-like androids. The studio first screened this trailer at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008. The English subtitle of the Eve no Jikan film title, which literally translates as “Time of Eve,” is written as “Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?”

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fritsl’s 120$ self-propelled autonomous drumming robot on letsmakerobots is not only yellow, it has immense attractor written all over it. really. while finding its way to the nearest wide surface or single object it can drum on, it does a serious business of turning its sensors in a very paranoid fashion - by using three drumsticks, a microphone and a loudspeaker, it records patterns of its own (randomly invented) drumplaying he uses as a basis to drum to, though it can also synchronize to music or to your feet tapping. i’m on my way to find someone who jury-rigs one for me. (via wired)

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Panelists discuss whether controversial decisions by the Robot Congress and President Executron indicate robots have too much control over our lives. (via boingboing)

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Sleep Waking is an unusual art work that combines recorded brainwave activity and REM sleep with robot behaviors. The Sleep Waking robot plays back your dreams, or, if you will, presents an interpretive dance of your dreams.

The Sleep Waking robot is the result of a collaboration between Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns. Orellana spent a night in The Albany Regional Sleep Disorder Center in New York. The staff wired him up and collected data of every conceivable kind: EEG, EKG, rapid eye movement - you name it. Orellana describes the use of the data to animate the robot (…) (link)

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