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The Robots That WALL-E Stole From

Everyone already knows that WALL-E is a direct rip-off of Short Circuit's Johnny 5. But J5 isn't the only track bot that Pixar borrowed the WALL-E look from. We've taken a deeper look into the world of androids and bulky square robotics and...

5:00 PM on Wed May 28 2008, by Meredith Woerner, 6,433 views, 38 comments
http://io9.com/393834/the-robots-that-wall+e-stole-from

See The Organ Repo Wagon

New production photos of Reposession Mambo tell us absolutely nothing about the more serious of the two organ-repo movies coming next year. You can see allegedly "futuristic" cars and some buildings. Yawn. [ShockTillYouDrop.com]The new Justice...

6:00 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007, by charliejane, 62 views, Comment
http://io9.com/328942/see-the-organ-repo-wagon

Will We Hold Robots Accountable for War Crimes?

Now that the military is using autonomous surveillance/combat robots created by iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum, a strange question emerges: What do we do if a robot commits a war crime? This isn't idle speculation. An...

1:00 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008, by Annalee Newitz, 1,630 views, 36 comments
http://io9.com/346124/will-we-hold-robots-accountable-for-war-crimes

The Real-Life Trash Robots Who Inspired Wall-E

For the past decade, a lot of our worst trash emergencies have been handled by robots who might just be the forebears of Wall-E. Toxic sludge, dangerous barrels of chemicals, and even the dust poots on your floor are being scrubbed up by...

2:00 PM on Sun Jun 29 2008, by Annalee Newitz, 2,541 views, 5 comments
http://io9.com/5020620/the-real+life-trash-robots-who-inspired-wall+e