Lately, I’m totally obsessed with WALL•E, which I think is my favorite movie since The Matrix. I fully recommend it; as usual, Pixar does not disappoint. Anyway, I was poking around on youtube and found out that disney/pixar has made a real animatronic WALL•E, presumably for one of their theme parks. Awesome! Clip of him in action after the break.
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Just found these videos for the custom-built Readybot, a robot designed by a team of senior engineers from Silicon Valley. It is meant to clean things up a bit around the house and do various menial tasks. I think it’s a dreadful name and that maybe they should have gone with something like Rosie and given it a frilly apron, but I digress. I think it’s pretty awesome as it is, and the bot even has an onboard roomba! Videos after the break.
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