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Cute Robot Sculptures Are Both Scrappy And Made Of Scrap
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 »Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
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 »The Posters Your Robot Companion Wants To Hang On Its Walls
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 »The Trippy Robot Toys of Yesteryear
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 »The Life and Times of a Brain in a Jar
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 »Roombas Explore Their Creative Side
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 »The Nightmares of Robots Grew Inside Us
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 »Enter Your Robotic Art in the RoboGames' Annual Art Expo!
The First Slaves Of The Robot Overlords Will Be Other Robots
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 »This Robot Is Built For Combat, But Doesn't Mind Chilling On Your Desk
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 »The Publishing Industry Is Building Killer Robots
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 »The City Of Robotic Love
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Recycled Robots Refuse To Resort To Type
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 »See Art Bots In Their Natural Habitat
Your Robot Defense System Has Arrived
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 »A Giant Robot Surveys Our Postapocalyptic World
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]Power-Hungry Robot Takes What It Craves
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 »The Bad Robot Overlord's Favorite Robot Art
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 »