Cute Little Army of Robots
Bennett Robot Works
are the "Original Art Robot Sculptures" (looking every bit like props
from the "Robots" animated feature). They’re made from "found objects":
wood, metal, and various strange stuff found in the basement and at
garage sales. There is an endless catalog of them on this site. Each
robot is a miniature delight; and together they are as addictive, as an
assortment of mini donuts.
Each robot takes about a month to build. They are not meant to be a toy.
Some robots mean business
In case you want to be prepared, here is
the book "How to survive a robot uprising"; and another site, where the most aggressive robots can battle each other to their heart’s content:
while veterans stand around and watch: (source site)
…and robotic mice scatter nearby:
– witness "Herbie the MouseBot", fully functional miniature robot rodent (source)
If
you read old newspapers, you’ll see that robots were more well-behaved
in the past: this one "STEAM-POWERED DREADNOUGHT CERBER" was even
employed as a police enforcer in Victorian London: (more here)
but as history progressed, they often made the wrong choices:
(source)
to the point that today humans need to put up warning signs like this:
Know your enemy – read the site devoted to wayward robots, aptly named
"Suicide Bots" Don’t miss a link to "sexed robots" site, or picture of
"Google Bot".
Probably the Ugliest Robot Ever:
As a parting shot, these are quite harmless robots from the communist times in Russia:
(they are also quite ugly) 