Awesome Robots

There’s no getting a soccer (or foot) ball past this guy. That’s because it’s Robokeeper, a goal tender with lightning-fast reflexes that never misses a ball. Guess it’s time for a Robokicker. Or Robocop.

They can do battle, perform surgery, and even drive vehicles, but finally, we have a robot that does something useful. An MIT team has been teaching the PR2 robot to bake cookies.

Steampunk? Check. WOW-esque fantasy? Check. Old-school Sci-fi? Big check. Californian artist Vincent Villafranca’s cast sculpture work appeals to all sides of your most base nerd.

Comprised mostly of solenoids, relays, wires, and other gizmos, the robotic EOL Band takes on Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People, proving that robots are as capable of rocking out as any of us.

Robohash creates unique robot/monster/alien creatures based on a unique hash created from the text you enter. Though we think the awesomer robot is a way awesomer than theawesomer robot.

In the future, London’s Brixton district will be home to countless robotic workers, living amongst humans, forced to do the jobs they no longer want. Solid social commentary, brilliant CG animation.

This ordinary-looking can actually has circuits inside instead of beer. Currently being developed by Ron Tajima, the transforming beer can robot can walk, roll and revert to its original form.

Hyun-Seok Kim’s Puppy Robotic is a vacuum cleaner consisting of a mommy dog and her litte, who even have digital faces. The mom acts as the base unit and the four pups are her cleanup crew.

We’ve seen the da Vinci surgical robot fold tiny paper airplanes, so it should be plenty accurate to perform surgery on humans – or to remove your wish bone without making your nose light up.

Former MMA fighter Genki Sudo and the rest of World Order – the guys who made Mind Shift – are back with another zen robot music video. Read Sudo’s accompanying inspirational message here.

Using a da Vinci surgical robot, Dr. James Porter manages to fold a tiny paper airplane – and throws it. Let’s just hope he doesn’t try this in the middle of your open heart surgery.

The bittersweet (and shocking) tale of a boy and his household robot. Written and directed brilliantly by filmmaker Ruairi­ Robinson, and starring Max Records, the kid from Where the Wild Things Are.

Transformers in the ring? We will find out as Hugh Jackman stars in Shawn Levy’s Real Steel, a boxing drama set in the near future where 2,000-pound robot gladiators that look like humans do battle.

An Anybots robot is sent to a coffee shop to order a scone, prompting dumbfounded stares and video-taking from the fleshy patrons. The barista on the other hand doesn’t skip a beat.

Alright, you don’t have to kill 14 minutes of your life watching the whole video from RemoteKontrol busting out these sick robot dance moves, but on the other hand, why not? (Thanks IceBone!)

The inventor of this iPhone-controlled beer robot deserves the next Nobel Prize. Not only does it let him check beer temp, he can choose a beer and fire a cold one across the room to himself.

Designed by Chris Rogers, the Mega Hurtz is a remote-controlled 4-wheel drive robot. It can turn on a dime, has enough torque to tow a Hummer, knocks down walls, and can be fitted with weapons.

This innovative approach to the robotic gripper from Cornell, the U of C, and iRobot uses granular material that flows around a item and conforms to its shape to pick up objects of all shapes and sizes.

Yeah, yeah. Halloween is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still like the occasional cool costume. This amazing robot outfit took 250 hours and $1000+ in parts to build. Worth every penny.

This past Halloween, a neighborhood was terrorized by a flying shapeless white figure with rotor blades for arms. But it’s not a ghost, it’s “Mr. T,” a robot made by Michael aka Utah Aerials.

If you ever wondered exactly how we got the sophisticated robot technology we have today, this t-shirt explains it all in one simple evolutionary diagram. Available from Diesel Sweeties.

Pro bowler Chris Barnes takes on EARL (Enhanced Automated Robotic Launcher) capable of rolling an identical shot nearly every time. But its precision is its downfall. The score stands: humans 1, robots 0.

Autonomos Labs have developed a car that can be ordered to drive itself and pick up a passenger. The car has a complimentary iPad app that uses GPS to inform the car of the passenger’s location.