It is no surprise that many scientists chose their profession because of the influence that Science Fiction had on them, with its dazzling displays of robotic technology and spectacular visions of the future.
Who are your favorite Sci-Fi Robots that influenced you to build robots as a hobby or as a professional roboticist? (Please include pics and links)
I haven’t seen Short Circuit in ages, I definitely have to watch that again! Shame on me, I have never seen Wall-E (though I plan to watch it very soon, I heard it was a great movie!)
LOL I remember how trippy it was when Ash’s head was knocked off in Alien…a totally new android concept with internal fluids. Very cool.
And, ah yes…who can forget Rachel from Bladerunner?!? I recenty read that Ridley Scott will be directing either a sequel or prequel to Bladerunner that is scheduled to begin shooting very soon. Can’t wait!
R2D2 is awesome! if I had the cash, I’d build one like this guy Paul did. It’s really something, some of these guys spend +$10,000 building replica R2D2’s. If I had the money, I’d do it too, for sure!
I liked that picture so much that I went to the artist Richard Sargent’s web site and saw they will be selling prints of this in the near future. In the meantime, they are having a contest to see who can name the most robots in the picture. Here is a chart of the picture with numbers to help! i bet the LMR crew could figure it out! :-) That picture is way cool hardmouse, thanks so much for posting it!
