Robots

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Jim Henson Extravaganza

Will Truman August 14, 2021

Videos from the Jim Hensen archives: Robots, Wilkins Coffee, and the original Kermit the Frog.

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Can You Have Your Cat and R2D2?

Kristin Devine February 25, 2019

Would the accessibility of a robot cat outweigh the fact that it wasn’t real?

Robots: Viral Success, but Practical Challenges Remain Robots

Robots: Viral Success, but Practical Challenges Remain

Andrew Donaldson May 11, 2018

Turns out, Skynet might have been an underachieving bunch of pikers. At least, if the developments in...

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Linky Friday: Gods and Robots

Will Truman January 26, 2018

This week: Robots, Religion, Energy, Science, and Space!

In The Not-Too-Distant Future… mst3k new cast

In The Not-Too-Distant Future…

Garrett Stiger April 14, 2017

A personal essay on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and its return.

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I’m Just a Robot: Music Video

Guest Authors September 3, 2013

Original electronica music and music video from Major Zed.

Driving Blind: CIA Conspiracies and Robot Laborers IFRL-TLC-Scenery-durul-dalkanat-1340961-unsplash

Driving Blind: CIA Conspiracies and Robot Laborers

Ethan Gach May 13, 2013

Mike Masnick highlights how the weird retail history of cars has led to state laws which leave...

DensityDuck in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Which means it'll happen before the day is out. ***** Kid doesn't realize that the Democrat Party is…
DensityDuck in reply to David TC on The Department of Good Things" I have no idea what you’re even trying to smuggle past security because liquid is merely ‘a state…
DensityDuck in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Target set up assessments that the government alleged ‘disproportionately screened out black, Asian…
David TC in reply to DensityDuck on The Department of Good Thingsa criticism of “you’re not strict enough to actually find all the things” is not an argument against…
Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Tossing him at this point would be the second stupidest thing the DNC has done in the last year.
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Credit where it's due, I think he handled that quite well. Might be too little too late for him but…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025David Hogg fans should know that HE HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT: "Today, the DNC took its first steps t…
North in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Gotta agree with the duck here. Also, any time you're working with anything that involves the ocean…
CJColucci in reply to DensityDuck on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeEmployment cases are the largest part of my day job and everyone in the business knows and understan…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025No Veronica, there is no Santa, much less two. But the GOP sure does love to stack the deck anyway.…