The Robot Thread

[Crossbreed]

Does anybody remember Metal Men comics?

Yes, but I thought their stories were lame.

Metal Men (New Earth)

The Metal Men are liquid metal robots made from various elements each with almost limitless shape shifting abilities. They were created by the brilliant robotics expert and Elementical genius Dr. William Magus. The Metal Men consist of six robots: Gold, Platinum, Mercury, Iron, Tin and Lead. Doc...

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[Mr. Stevens]

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Wow, Bob Burden! I could recognize that art style anywhere. I wrote to him as a kid and have some signed Flaming Carrot issues.

 

[Princess Viola]

Considering how much a fan I am of Transformers and other mecha series, this robot thread is very interesting to me.

 

[Rodafina]

 

[Crossbreed]

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It looks a bit like a centaur.

 

[Rodafina]

 

[Princess Viola]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535809324492406785

 

[Luca]

Hmmm...

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[Jumpinbare]

What's not to like about robots?
When I was a kid, the Astroboy cartoon was around (1960s). I was determined that when I grew up, I would get myself turned into a robot.
In an overzealous effort to get my extreme emotional outbursts under control, I pretty much idolized and emulated Mr Spock, and actually did stop my emotional outbursts. In Jr High and High School, I was criticised for being too much of a robot.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I enjoyed the Metal Men comics also

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

Do you like robots?

No they freak me out a bit
I do not think humans are designed to be robots

 

[Crossbreed]

No they freak me out a bit

That disturbance is known as the "uncanny valley."

The Uncanny Valley: Why Realistic Robots Are Creepy

The uncanny valley is a phenomenon that occurs when the more realistic a robot becomes, the more likely it is to seem eerie or even disgusting. Learn why it happens.

www.verywellmind.com

Uncanny valley - Wikipedia

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[tree]

I am almost done reading the second book about Roz, the Wild Robot.

 

[Crossbreed]

...the Wild Robot.

That sounds like an oxymoron.

 

[tree]

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown / A Children's Picture Book

In The Wild Robot, robot Roz discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive?

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The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

Published by Little Brown Summary: When we last saw Roz, she had been captured and was in pieces, flying away from her beloved island and her goose son, Brightbill. As the curtain rises on Act 2,…

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[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

That disturbance is known as the "uncanny valley."

The Uncanny Valley: Why Realistic Robots Are Creepy

The uncanny valley is a phenomenon that occurs when the more realistic a robot becomes, the more likely it is to seem eerie or even disgusting. Learn why it happens.

www.verywellmind.com

Uncanny valley - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Well on a visual aspect it is creepy but maybe it is reflective of their own views...
How people expect people to think alike, look alike, live alike, be like minded
So seriously we might as well be androids if people cannot accept people are different when we are made with completely different characteristics and looks and genetic makeup and our own unique personality.

 

[Shevek]

When I was in high school, I won a prize that was a kit for a speech synthesizer. It was a breadboard electronic kit with provision to swap out three different capacitors to change a wave form in order to produce ten different vowel sounds. There was a special circular slide rule provided for choosing them. I decided to just try it with random capacitors, holding two by hand. I slipped, so the sound in the earphones changed during the test. It said "ma.' Then I made it say "Ma ma." So, I think that robots like me. "M" was not listed as possible.
I'm very impressed with the Boston Dynamics robo-dogs, and I really wish humans would focus on robots instead of humans in space, but my greatest hope is for millions of 3-D printed robots weighing just a few kilos each tending an organic permaculture better than the smartest gardener could. Currently, farms are totally dependent on chemicals - the farmers don't even own plows, just giant machines dependent on poisons and diesel.