Art / Entertainment

In this action-packed short featuring Michelle Rodriguez, chaos becomes the new world order when robots designed to serve mankind form an army to destroy it.  One man discovers the source of the uprising and enlists the help of an ex solider to stop it. Michelle Rodriguez and Lukas Haas star in this Science Fiction story about Man vs Machine. Directed by Actor Catero Colbert (best known as Tom Staton on Showtime’s roadies and the voice of Killer Bee in the Naruto series). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSiOVmxilDA&t=9s Text and media Credit: Catero Robert Read More

20 October – 30 November 2016 Science Museum, London Free sciencemuseum.org.uk/eric   20 October – Today the Science Museum unveiled a 2m tall, full-size working replica of Eric, one of the world’s first robots. Eric will be on display from 20 October to 30 November 2016, and will be demonstrated twice a week while on show at the Museum. Eric holds a unique place in our history. Built less than a decade after the word robot was first used, he was everything we now imagine a robot to be – a talking, moving mechanical person. Originally built in 1928 by Captain W.H. Richards & A.H. Reffell, Eric amazed crowds across […] Read More

AUTONOMOUS is an award-winning Sci-Fi short film that unofficially premiered at the 35th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. It recently won the Silver Award at The Box Film Festival 2016 (UK) and is an official selection in ten more film festivals around the world. Premise: When a mistrustful rogue, who earns a living by sending “obsolete” humanoid robots to the scrap heap, has a change of heart and decides it’s time to call it quits, he stumbles upon a conspiracy that will reveal his life’s darkest secret.   You can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj92Mh2l8kk     Read More

2016 RobotArt Contest is first of five annual challenges that hope to inspire the creation of true artificial creativity. Seattle, Washington, January 27, 2016 (Newswire.com) – ​​​​​In the tradition of recent Technological Grand Challenges, RobotArt has pledged over half a million dollars in prizes over 5 years to competitors in a new Robotic Grand Challenge.  This Grand Challenge is simple to describe but difficult to master, create a robot that paints with a brush like a classical master.  The more skilled and creative the robot, the better. With a deadline to submit artwork on April 14th, a dozen teams from around the world have already committed. Notable entries include multiple […] Read More

There will be again 3 movies in the new series and the first one will be on screen next year ! Read More

Lately, I started to watch the Series on Fox TV, Almost Human, as I am utterly interested in anything that hits the screens involving robots. I am usually not very impressed with the way in which most of the futuristic movies envision robots and future technologies; however, this one really was absolutely different. I am not only talking about the robots or androids here, no, but also how the makers envisioned the future and put all the technologies that will exist soon, in a very realistic manner. For instance, there have been shows on such things as:  drones that follow and do reconnaissance on everything; the abilities of the humanoid […] Read More

As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircrafts. 30 LED-equipped mini-helicopters, for its four rotors also called quadrocopters,performed a spectacular show: They drew the Star Trek logo into the nightly sky over the city of London. Film producer Paramount had commissioned the flying light sculpture. The light show was supposed to give a sign to […] Read More