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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...


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...


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...


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...