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You would not want to get on the wrong side of this robot gunslinger and his pet rattlesnake — or it would end very badly for you. This is "The Rustslinger," one of two great new robot sculptures from Vincent Villafranca. More »
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Vote for DominatorDroid 3000 in this year's Presidroidal election. We gave the old PeaceBot regime a chance, and it suffered fatal Blue Screen errors. You can register your vote by going to the robot art show at Gallery 242. More »
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After the apocalypse, we'll need to build our new robot helpers out of whatever we can find... and we'll need them to be as cute as possible, to cheer us up. So thank goodness for Mike "Slobot" Heisler's recycled robots. More »
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When we featured Brian Kappel's robot paintings a while back, many of you expressed a desire to own them as posters. Now you can show your solidarity with robot soldiers and food-service drones, with your own Kappel posters. More »
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Brian Kappel's robot paintings are like artifacts from an alternate world where robots are rockstars, soldiers and burlesque dancers. If robots collected art, these paintings would hang in the fanciest robo-galleries in the world. More »
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Children of the 1950s might have delighted in the battery-powered robots lining their toy shelves, but the real gems are the boxes they came in, depicting alien scenes of our multicolored, sparking, smoking, and missile-launching robot future. More »
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Pixar illustrator Nate Wragg's recent series captures moments in the life of BrainBot — part robot, part human brain. BrainBot proves that you don't need facial expressions to display your melancholy. More »
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Roombas may seem like happy little domestic appliances, wobbling around your apartment cleaning up after you. But they're secretly hatching desires to become the next great robo-artist. Just look at this time-elapse photo. More »
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He was just an ordinary housebot, designed to lift rocks and clean the laundry. But his creators repurposed him for war, never imagining that he might be afraid, and resist the urge to kill. More »
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Are you an artist or maker who loves to build robots whose sole purpose in life is to be artistic rather than to destroy humans or build ships? Then we've got the perfect art expo for you, and you can enter your art robots now! More »
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Pity the poor robots of R. Nicholas Kuszyk's art. Immobilized by tons of wires coming out of their bodies, they struggle with huge, unidentifiable balls of jagged metal. Update: gallery now works! More »
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This new Euro Bramble figurine, the second robot from Ashley Wood and Jon Gibson's World War Robot, is a thing of militaristic beauty. Click through for a few more Bramble pics. More »
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Finally, a writer with decent priorities: the first thing author Jason Bradbury did when he got a book deal was ask the publisher for money to make a lifesize model of his book's robot. More »
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If you're in Philadelphia tonight, your robot overlords expect you to be at the Proximity Gallery for the opening of a robot/monster art show. Including the amazing robot paintings of Rob Morgan. This one has the intriguing title "Thirsty Robot At Dawn." What's he thirsty for? Oil? Or is he the new vampbot model? A few of our faves are below. More »
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These robot pole-dancers work hard for the money, along with their lamp-headed DJ friend. They're part of the weird MuTate Modern exhibition, at the Behind The Shutters gallery in London, which also includes a tricked-out MIG jet and a giant 3-D animated face. More »
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Last week, we told you about Nerdbots' method of recycling, but they're not the only ones making finding new things to do with yesterday's debris - Jeremy Mayer is also finding new ways to turn trash into a particularly beautiful robotic art. More »
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Need more robot art? Of course you do. Luckily, the Fish With Braids gallery in Jersey City, NJ is having a robot-themed exhibition. The standouts include Fred Kluth's comics and painting about Singleton the dog and his robot friend (see left), and a robot with a "strap-on heart" that registers your heartbeat. Also, "Lego-Master" Eric Sophie has been sculpting Lego for 18 years and is selling giant Lego robots for just $17,500 each. (Finally, an investment that's bound to go up!) [Fish With Braids] More »
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Wondering just what you can do to protect yourself from ninjas, cowboys and My Chemical Romance fans? We're pleased to introduce you to the sexy Bikini FemBot, a robot that's designed to do just that very thing. And she's just one of many such robots, all available to you through this very internet. More »
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I love the post-apocalyptic ruined look of this giant robot, made out of electronic junk parts. The WEEE-Man is made out of ten kinds of waste electrical and electronic components — the exact amount most of us throw out in our lifetimes — and he stands 7 meters tall, on a steel tripodic framework. But mostly, he looks like a giant robot conqueror, who came to our planet to conquer it and ended up ruling over a deserted junkheap which he uses for spare parts. Photo by Exfordy on Flickr. [WEEE-Man] More »
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A robot that can plug itself in would be totally unstoppable — as long as the power was turned on. It's like a cat who knows how to work a can-opener. German artist Andre Kutscherauer's 3-D CGI images show manic bots that look like Pixar's mutant offspring. My favorite image is the one below, showing a lightbulb bot that's plugged itself in — and now faces some unfortunate moth trouble. More »
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J.J. Abrams loves Eric Joyner's robot art, and so do we. The Bad Robot maestro is a fan of Joyner's paintings of tin robots in outer space, which inexplicably feature giant donuts. And Joyner's art will be featured as a backdrop in a new romantic comedy flick starring Abrams pal Greg Grunberg (the cop from Heroes) and directed by Lawrence Trilling (many Alias eps.) Joyner also has a bit part in the movie. Click through for a gallery of space-robots and donuts. More »
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