Awesome Robots

Get your late 70’s giant robot fix on with this fun poster series from the Boiling Point Creative Group. Unlike the original toys, these pieces aren’t spring loaded and won’t smack you in the eyeball.

(Spoilers) Director Guillermo del Toro and the cast and crew of Pacific Rim talk about the different mecha in the movie, and how they strive to make them unique. Think you can do better? Design your own Jaeger here.

From Monolith Soft, developer of the critically-acclaimed JRPG Xenoblade comes a new title only for the Wii U. The game codenamed ‘X’ will be an open world RPG with mechs that transform, fly and fight. Coming in 2014.

The latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim gives more sneak peeks at the monsters and giant robots that will go head-to-head in the movie. Check out the movie’s website for sweet images of the mecha.

Watch Jack Conte, an animatronic face and a hexapod play a song about effects pedals. Behind the scenes here. You can download the EP for free, but you might also want to donate at least $1 to Conte for his efforts.

ABE was programmed to love. Unfortunately, he expected to be loved back. There’s nothing like a good psychopathic robot story right before bedtime. Sweet dreams. Written and directed by Rob McLellan. (Thanks Thane!)

(NSFW: Language) Two employees volunteer to go around the office and have their co-workers sign on a farewell card for another co-worker, who as it turns out doesn’t know that he’s leaving. It’s like The Office, but with robots.

Boston Dynamics’ versatile humanoid robot, PETMAN, takes to the runway and struts its stuff, demonstrating its ability to simultaneously amaze us with its technology and freak the hell out of us. The robopocalypse is nigh.

A woman who dreams in images from classic films auditions for a part of her own. Oh, did we mention she was a robot? A wonderfully imaginative CGI animated short film created by Kerry Conran for WIGS. Go BTS here.

Could this be the Roomba of grills? Grillbot is equipped with 3 motors that drive its 3 replaceable and dishwasher-friendly wire brushes. It also has a timer and overheat warning.

A band of LEGO Bionicle musicians gets outfitted with servos and bang out some catchy beats, with the help of an Arduino Uno board, and the Clavia Nord Beat iPad sequencer app.

Party Robotics’ Bartendro is a modular and open-source robot that dispenses perfectly mixed cocktail drinks and takes your order via a mobile app. It comes in 1, 3, 7 and 15 pump variants.

Inertia Labs’ cheeky entry into this year’s BarBot competition can pour and shake any three-ingredient cocktail you’d like. Drink up – assuming you can get past its unusual dispensing mechanism.

We’ve got enough trouble with Boston Dynamics beastly four-legged robot, but now it’s got the ability to pick up cinder blocks and toss them across the room. Nothing good could possibly come of this.

The guys at ABB Robotics show off the incredible precision of their ‘bots as they rapidly guide a point between tightly packed cans of soda. Though we’d be more impressed if they were filled with soda.

SyFy’s new brings Real Steel to real life, as contestants take one each other using killer robotic avatars, remotely controlled by their pilots. Though we’re still waiting for wearable mech suit fights.

ThinkGeek’s aluminum replicas of the evil artificial intelligence are based on “actual studio blueprints.” It recites 15 of its lines from 2001: A Space Odyssey in it’s cold, cold voice.

Check out Compressorhead kicking out the robot jams in their cover of Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. When the Country Bear Jamboree is in ashes, you have my permission to rock. (Thanks everyone!)

This ingenious, yet elegantly-simple robot design from IIT engineers allows a quadrotor UAV to go from air to ground and back again by using a rolling cage which rotates around its mid-section.

Boston Dynamics’ Legged Squad Support System or LS3 can follow voice commands and maneuver through a variety of terrain. We hope its successors won’t hunt us down for laughing at its awkward gait.

The House of Automata has a growing collection of recovered and restored automatons like this 120-year-old singing bird contraption. Sounds kind of like an early prototype for a car alarm.

YouTuber Sean Warner mashed up the debut trailer of Pacific Rim with the theme song from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Be sure to listen to Zordon’s simple requirement to be a Power Ranger.

Assaulted by legions of gigantic monsters, man builds equally massive fighting robots to fight back. It’s monsters vs. mecha in director Guillermo del Toro’s latest. Is it just us, or is that GLaDOS talking?