“Long ago when the world was old…”

Cute little animated film featuring elephants, a robot, a duck, Ganesh, Buddha and a mushroom for sitting under.

Chag Pesach Sameach my Hebrew-style robot-lovin’ friends. Here’s a video of a Robot Passover, courtesy the lovely AdaFruit (added bonus: Spock Matza!)

While we ere at SuicideBots are not a religious bent, we can always get behind a homestyle feast and copious quantities of red wine.

UPDATE 3/25/10: The robots are revolting (they are pretty horrible aren’t they?)
Because of this, this event is sadly canceled! Spread the word!

Thanks.

Hey all you Bay Area folk, what better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than with ROBOTS and BEER?

Yeah we couldn’t think of one either, so we bring you the following:

A Tech Shop RoboGames Gala Event!

Come one come all to a fabulous extravaganza of robotic relaxation! From the producers of RoboGames comes a night of robot fun so delightful, so exciting, and for a cause so worthy that one would be hard-pressed to find a better use of an evening!

Have a margarita courtesy The World’s Most Dangerous Blender, start a dance-off with an android, get your frustrations out with tiny robot fights!

Buy a drink from a friendly robot bartender and wander the lanes at Tech Shop, discovering marvels of the age – roving robot friends, music, laughter, and a fun-filled evening of planning for eventual robotic world domination!

All proceeds of this gala evening go to the Robotics Society of America for the production of RoboGames. RoboGames’ mission is the advancement of the study of science, mathematics, engineering and technology, and inspiring students in these subject through robotics.

The Robotics Society of America is a 501c3 educational nonprofit established in 1977 (so your donations are of course, tax deductable.)

Relax and enjoy fine company amid an evening of stimulating robotic splendor, fine people, and the knowledge that your cocktail money is helping hundreds of competitors and students from here and around the world expand robotics knowledge and inspiration.

You’ll also have the opportunity to sponsor a team or volunteer at the event!

No Cover, lots of robots, even more interesting people!

Saturday March 27th,
5pm-11pm
Tech Shop Menlo Park
120 Independence Drive
Menlo Park,Ca
MAP!

Email Simone at combots dot net if you have any questions! Woot!

One doesn’t normally put “tiki” and “robots” in the same sentence, so it took a couple of art geniuses to create them. Designed by Flounder (Scott Sheidley) and sculpted by Squid (Dave Cohen) for TikiFarm. Sadly for you, these gems have long been sold out.

However, it seems that there are robot decanters and shot glasses still available.

I like my mugs filled with coffee and Kahlua on a Saturday morning. We have come to refer to it as Robot Coffee.

I named them Aloha and Mahalo. Cheers!

And also deLIcious!

[Thank you to our hero, @ebertchicago]

It’s been quiet here in the Uncanny Valley, as we stand around awkwardly in our black suits next to the buffet, finding comfort in funeral potatoes and leftover hamentashen, trying to find something to say that will alleviate the great sense of loss upon hearing of the demise of one of our own, ABE the undersea explorer, out of Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute.

ABE in happier times

Brought out of retirement for an expedition off the coast of Chile, ABE, and autonomous exploratory submersible, was searching for hydrothermal vents on the sea floor when both acoustic transponders on his hull stopped responding.

Dr. Dana Yoerger, senior scientist and a member of the team who built ABE, speaking from the expedition ship Melville, said in ABE’s New York Times Obituary: “For both to die at exactly the same time means probably something very bad and very violent happened,”

Dr. Chris German, a Woods Hole senior scientist who was also in Chile with ABE at the time of the accident, soldiered on admirably, though shaken.

“You’re stuck at sea and you can’t just cry and go home,” he said. “So you figure out what’s the best you can do with what’s available.” That has involved using more conventional equipment to sample the water for other evidence of hydrothermal events, compiling data that can be used when researchers come back.”

Dr. Dana Yoerger reflects:

Dr. Yoerger said he had tried not to become too emotional about the loss of ABE, particularly given the human suffering nearby in Chile from the recent earthquake. “This is aluminum, glass and silicon,” he said. “We can build a new one.”

Still, he said, there had been some trying moments. “The most difficult one was writing the e-mails to my children and grandchildren telling them that their robotic friend was gone.”

::sniffle:: Goodspeed, ABE, tell Cthulhu “Hi” for us as your survey the streets of downtown R’Lyeh for all eternity.

[Tip of the cocktail napkin to OtherMichael]

Oh Sweet Mercy, my favorite kraut rock style robot electronica mishmash, My Robot Friend, is playing in Brooklyn on Friday, March 12th!one1!

OMG HOWARD I LOVE YOU

You know My Robot Friend from their superlative and extremely popular music video, Robot High School seen here, there and everywhere.

$10 bucks cheap! $5 if you come in a light up costume, so bust out the EL wire and your LED throwie collection! Tell all your friends! Support local music and robot dorks everywhere!

So sensitive, so poetic, so artfully programmed. . .

Hurray for Kiva Systems, and the robots they employ [via Le Boing]