Thursday, 26 June 2025
Glimpses of Machinery
Saturday, 7 June 2025
My Pizza was Served by Droids
At Center Parcs last week we were partly served by a robot in a pizza joint.
A human lady took our order but the food travelled from the kitchen to us on a trolley droid, after which, the human lady then still placed the meals on our table.
I imagine in some tech-drenched countries the human lady is no more and all her functions have been replaced by machines. Maybe even the cooking itself, with droid chefs roasting chickens and testing the soup!
I'm unsure what I feel about the ongoing robot and AI creep into our lives. It seems unstoppable. How far will it go?
The Thunderbirds boy in me loves it, the old luddite Sixty something not so much.
Is this the future Century 21 showed us and I just can't see it fully yet?
What do you think about robots among us readers?
Friday, 2 May 2025
The Electric State
Over the last few years there's been a handful of futuristic series and films on streaming that have mixed tech, robotics and humans startlingly well in my opinion.
Fall Out was one such show, the story of underground human settlements surviving a nuclear winter. The standout character was the mutated sheriff in the badlands.
Then there was the film The Creator, which blew me away with it's ground-searching floodlights emitted from vast government flying craft. Amazing imagery all round.
Recently came The Electric State, which I enjoyed a lot. I know it's a polarising film but I liked the juxtaposition of old tech, ai tech, cyborgs and people. The abandoned amusement park-style zone where old bits dwelled was great. I particularly liked the big ball-headed giant bot in the last battle. At it's heart though was a desperate quest and a vein of sorrow.
This of course has been done before with the film AI many years ago, a film for personal reasons I find difficult to watch, although I think it's a terrific flick.
Last week came the Artifice Girl. Again, whispers of AI's David, together with his longevity as the AI girl outlives it's creator. I didn't see all of it.
The sentiment that AI robots will outlive us all seems to run through all these films, a machined longevity which brings them nothing but loneliness.
What do you think readers?
Saturday, 28 September 2024
A WORM IN MY OR
I was completely amazed by the real and unique Or and Orbitor toy owned by John Eaton and published on his Major Matt Mason blog [thanks Paul V.]
Regarding John's Or itself, its such a cute and fragile-looking plastic alien creature in two attractive colours. Its a really appealing figure, almost Bruderesque and would 'sit' well among the Colourforms Outrer Space Men too, as well as its stablemates Callisto, Captain Lazer and Scorpio.
Seeing Or made me think of other similar insectoid robots. I couldn't find any contemporaries of Or from the 1960's but there are a few from later decades that have those creepy crawly robot chops.
There's the modern dancing robot.
Friday, 26 April 2024
Kevin's Scratch Robot Braman
Sunday, 3 March 2024
AMERICAN FOLK ROBOTS
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
THE ROBOTS THAT KEEP ON GOING
Thursday, 22 June 2023
ROB'S BULLMARK MEMORIES
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
ALTAIR BOY: TERRANOVA'S NEW FORBIDDEN PLANET ROBBIE ROBOT
Neither forbidden nor invisible, this American Walmart exclusive Robbie is the biz!
Enjoy!
Images kindly shared by Terranova47, USA
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