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The Best Abstract Giant Robot Ever

I am convinced that this giant robot, from the 1957 movie Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is perhaps the very best of the abstract giant robots. And by "abstract," I mean Kronos here looks basically like a modernist building — just a big box on giant struts with a spherical head topped by two antennae. Sure there's some backstory here, like a flying saucer crashed in Mexico and suddenly there was this giant robot who is mind-controlling everybody so it can eat electricity or atomic bombs or something. Really, though, all you need to know is that there is a hulking robot building thing roaming the countryside, and being followed by three intrepid robot geeks wearing awesome coveralls that say "Labcentral" on the back. Damn, I want those coveralls. And that abstract giant robot! Here I've put together the very best of the giant robot scenes for you. Watch Kronos from far away, from up close, and in full burnination mode! [Kronos via IMDB]

8:32 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,977 views, 33 comments

Latest by Dr. Futurity: Bah, "someone" should be "somewhere" in my previous comment. more »

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Drink with io9ers Tonight at Nerd Salon in San Francisco

Tonight in San Francisco the nerds can rejoice at Nerd Salon, an event where you can chat or flirt without fear about comic books, computers, bioengineering, and Battlestar Galactica. Convened by myself, and Electronic Frontier Foundation legal geek Jennifer Granick, Nerd Salon is a place where people will help you with your homework. While drinking. And playing with humanoid robots, supplied by the excellent David Calkins and Simone Davalos of Robogames. Come out between 6-9 PM to the Makeout Room in San Francisco and say hi to your fellow io9ers and sundry nerds.

11:41 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Annalee Newitz
554 views, 41 comments

Latest by PadreFaustus: Hi, Annalee. Any plans to make this a regular event? Fortunately, I do live here in SF, and would love to hang out with fellow io9-ers. And The Make Out Room is great! more »

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Hang Out with io9ers at San Francisco's Nerd Salon 4/23

At random intervals, an event called Nerd Salon happens in San Francisco. People meet at a bar, drink, play with robots, and have a chance to solve a puzzle to win something cool (usually alcohol). It's organized by yours truly and Jennifer Granick, a kickass lawyer (and serious comic book geek) from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A new installment of Nerd Salon is happening next week, just in time for all the web nerds in town for O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, and of course io9 readers are cordially invited. Come out Wed., April 23, 6-9 PM at the Makeout Room in San Francisco. Get drunk and play with bots. And talk about aliens. Or zombies. Whatever.

5:15 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Annalee Newitz
496 views, 22 comments

Latest by Ed Grabianowski: So, are there really no other io9ites near Buffalo? Is it just gonna be me and M. Reilly weeping into our beers over the death of Bill the Mule? more »