Grok Robots

Wall-E on the N on Flickr - Photo Sharing

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

This comment thread at Pixar Planet has some images of WALL-E toys that will be unleashed on us soon.

If you’d rather build your own, keep your eyes on this Flickr set from the WALL-E Builder’s Group.

If you’ve got a Wii, here are some screenshots from the upcoming WALL-E videogame.

Over at Riding with Robots you’ll find pictures and news of robot antics on missions to Mars, Venus, Saturn and other out-there destinations. Remember, all photos taken by robots are now eligible for the Pulitzer Prize.

Are photos taken by robots (such as the photo above of a martian avalanche taken by a robotic spacecraft) eligible for a Pulitzer Prize? According to officials at The Pulitzer Prizes, the answer is yes.

In response to a query from Grok Robots, Sig Gissler, Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes, responded:

If the photos were published in a newspaper and ultimately chosen, we would have to figure out how to
allocate or explicate credit.

Now that photos by robots are eligible, who should get the actual credit? Manufacturers? Programmers? The robots themselves?

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

The classic dilemma: you are out with friends and having a great time. You’d love some pictures to capture the moment, but you fear that the mere act of taking out your moment will alter the mood. Now imagine your personal swarm of nanobots jumping into the action instead, taking pictures unnoticed. When you return home, you sort through and assemble the perfect set.

Well, keep imagining because swarming botarazzi are a long way off. However, you can enjoy the award-winning camera bots who emerged victorious from the Mindstorms NXT Camera Bot Building Challenge.

photo by jaime

Judging by the products at the new Echo Park Time Travel Mart, the future looks like a mixed blessing. Sure you have robot milk and nanobots by the tin, but there is also a market for anti-robot fluid and “evil robot memory eraser.” I can’t help but think that something went at least a little bit wrong.