Didn’t there used to be a guitar mod like this sold out of the back of music magazines for like a hundred years? and only nerds buy it (kind of like that sitar pickup)?


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RobotLab experiments with placing “industrial robots in public spaces”. Imagine a more cuddly SRL. For the Wolfgang von Kempelen Exhibition in Budapest, they have programmed a Kuka to write out the Martin Luther Bible in calligraphy.

See the full photoset here.

(via HF & J)

“careless practicioners often suffer the socially sclerotic effects of Renaissance Faire attendance or absorptive Tolkienism.” btw looks like the Frere-Jones boys are making a bid to be the new John Crowley.


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Cute robots are really going to fuck with AI people.

but which one’s the robot?


Exactly


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That’s weird to type cause you feel like it’s some futuristic slur but it’s not. Everyone knows how in some middle eastern countries they stopped using human jockeys in camel races because of the whole child slavery problem. But, did you know what the robots looked like? LIKE THIS! I was all ready to be disappointed by another misanthropomorphic robot that just does its job effectively, like maybe in this case there would just be some sort of a cowboy spur or a crop that sticks into the camel’s sides and some sort of ‘hiya!” attachement to the steering cords (bridle?), but I was pleasantly surprised to see that these robot camel jockets feature a straight-outta-88 Oakley Razorblades-type faceplate.

nice thumbnail resizing finn.


*cries*


I fixed the bug and the giant camel is back!