Grok Robots

 Hello, I am still catching up from vacation. Here’s a trio of robot links all via the Boing:  

• Robots created from sans serif fonts
• Soviet kids’ book about robots (translated from French to Russian to English)
• Elephantine robot cleans urinals

Duncan of The Future is Awesome commented on the Eve poster post below with a link to to a gallery of BNL posters - including ones for WALL-E, M-O (above) and more. I love this artistic style of retrofuturism. Or futureretroism. Or whatever it is.

Photo by Flickr user Capitu, who also has some other good stuff from the Pixar mothership.

Mr. Roboto watch prototype from Azimuth

Mr Roboto’s visual appeal embodies the full-flavor revival of vintage tin robotic spaceman. The placements lend for easy reading and a radical tin robot visual appearance. The left ‘eye’ is the hour register, right ‘eye’ comes with GMT indication, the nose region joint with the mouth region are the seconds and retrograde minutes placements respectively.

These beautiful wooden carvings by take-g toys seem to be only available in Japan. Read more about them at PrairieMod.

I often get asked “Why do you make robots with wood?” I don’t really have an exact answer for it but I often relate my robots with ‘future’.

What do you relate future with? Cities full of metals, glasses and plastics in a SF movie???
What we really want is not that kind of future but one full of trees and something more natural. I don’t think humans can live without trees no matter what advances technology makes.

Up for auction is this 1927 poster for a production of Karel Capek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots. This is the play in which the word “robot” was coined in the early 1920s.

Many excellent entries over at Worth1000.

Same old story: Girl meets robot, robot gives girl flowers, robot and girl enjoy the countryside.

In this photoshoot, a model and her robot do all the usual things you might suspect a model and her robot to do: hang out by the fireplace, dance and make out.This models dispels the unfair stereotype that all models only date those flashy modern robots from the Uncanny Valley.

Check it out here: foto_decadent: Marie Claire Italy, Marzo 2008

photo by jaime