Robots Need Love Too

Since this blog apparently focuses too much on places down the block from me that are about to serve epic pizza and beer, I have decided to make an effort to branch out a bit.  Our new topic: ROBOTS.

Best song with ‘robots’ in the title:

Dan Magdan – Robots (Need Love Too) (iTunes)

(Note that this is our best defense against SkyNet and the Animatrix.)

Best album with ‘robots’ in the title:

The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

(Japanese version!)

Best band name involving ‘robots’:

Fembots – Good Days

(These guys are awesome – Ice Cream and Transit Song are also good songs.)

Best iPhone app involving robots:

Bebot

Seriously, buy this app, it is ridiculously entertaining.  It’s basically a multi-touch four-channel synthesizer with auto-tune, and a cute little robot that dances and sings along.  I got it for my 13 month old daughter but its awesomeness has led to epic iPhone control battles. I can make the little robot talk — he can say “What?!” “Woah!” and “Wow!” (Please note that this is equally entertaining to myself and someone 34.2 times younger than me.) Best $2 I’ve spent in a long time.

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There’s also a loop/echo feature so you get your very own delay stompbox. (I suggest setting the echo to fade a bit otherwise you get the dreaded dutch concert effect.) A more detailed demo video is on the Bebot website.

Best blog post on the social implication of having a robot double

Mock Duck – Robot Doubles

(Roboganger? Note also that significant research on the effects of readily available organic duplication was conducted in the late 80s by Professor B. Watterson of C&H University.)

Best robot picture on Flickr

Plug1 – I, Robot

UPDATE – and it turns out I have already done a robot post. So much for originality.

UPDATED UPDATE:

Best unreleased TV pilot based on the Adam Sandler skit about a robot who lives in a fraternity and discovers he is gay after a wine cooler is spilled on his circuit board:

Gay Robot

Best comic drawn in 24 hours about robots:

Robots Don’t Know Anything About Twitter