Awesome Robots

If you liked Parrot’s AR.Drone, build your own using Arduino; Paul Rene’s aptly-named Quaduino features four rotors, pitch/roll//yaw controls, a compass, barometer, and accelerometer.

The Transformers: War for Cybertron video we teased last month? It’s back as a two minute trailer and it’s utterly awesome: Optimus and Megatron: “One shall stand…one shall fall!”

From the same DJ who brought us the fantastic UPular Remix: Arnold is back in a big way with Skynet Symphonic, composed of sound clips from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Arnold really meant it when he’d be back: this 12″, 1:6 scale T-800 figure is a spot-on replica of the Governator in Terminator 2, complete with detachable left endoskeleton arm.

Shunichi Makin’s been busy ever since his mini-HAL 9000; he’s created not one but three super-deformed versions of Iron Man in papercraft, each with 3-4 printable PDF files.

It’ll be 2010 before we can name everything on this Science Fiction Screen Print; it’s a giant 14″x34″ poster with 61 robots, 58 aliens, and 30 icons from sci-fi film, tv, books, and games.

LipsonRobotics’ Speaker Bot will crush lesser docks with ease; this one-of-a-kind robot is made from reclaimed parts and packs a speaker in its torso and iPod Dock in its base.

Nils Volker’s slowly crawling Lightdrawing Robot seems more like the half-shell Da Vinci than the real one; still, there’s something charming about painting with LEDs and long exposures.

Developed to deal with the crush of holiday shoppers, Robo Santa is holly, jolly, and gigantic; neither rain, nor snow, nor carolers will stop this uber-Claus from delivering its gifts.

Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition is an uber-set for fans: it includes all 98 episodes of G1 on 16 DVDs, a 60-page book, and Autobot and Decepticon magnets.

If you liked today’s Iron Man trailer, here’s a metal suit of a different era: Robbie Lee’s Battle of the Ironclads tee teams up the Monitor and Merrimac in a sequel to his (sold-out) first tee.

Neato’s XV-11 makes other robot vacuums a-la the Roomba suck: instead of bumping around, it uses lasers to detect and map out objects up to 4 meters away; it’s due out 2/2010.

If you haven’t already watched it on DVD, see the full pilot episode for Caprica on SyFy or Hulu; for the uninitiated, it’s a sci-fi series that serves as a prequel to Battlestar Galactica.

We’re not sure if this SkyNet t-shirt is an exercise in cognitive dissonance or cyborg destruction; with Los Angeles the latest city to join the Cloud/Cyberdyne, it may be time to call on Connor.

An entry in Cooler Master’s 2009 Modding Contest, Macius Barreto’s Morphius is a four-legged robotic case mod of awesome; it’s built out of fiberglass and finished with car paint.

He’s before our time, but Robby the Robot’s timeless influence spans from 1956’s The Forbidden Planet to today’s Fallout 3; this 1:6 scale, 13″ figure packs light and sound effects.