What Warren Sapp, Daryl Hannah, and Dave Eggers Have in Common, Or, What’s With All the Freakin’ Pirates? | “Maybe you haven’t noticed, but we are completely immersed in a pirate renaissance. At the moment, there is nothing cooler than pirates. This sort of thing happens periodically; you may recall the ninja renaissance of the mid-eighties…”

Muscle Wire Robots | “Muscle Wires are thin strands of a special nickel-titanium alloy that actually shorten in length when electrically powered. They are easy to use, and they can lift thousands of times their own weight. The direct linear motion of Muscle Wires offers experimenters a source of motion that is very similar to that of a human muscle, providing possibilities not available with motors or solenoids. This is an ideal material for making small, simple walking robots!”

Robot Stories | “Ostensibly about artificial life forms, each of these four short, expertly crafted stories offers a poignant perspective on what it means to be human…”

Via Boing Boing, we have two sites featuring pirate things for your bathroom! Pirate Bath Collection and Dead Men Tell No Tales.com. Damn!

Old media meets new media in Robot Love!

graffiti robot | “hektor, the creation of Jurg Lehni and Uli Franke, is a robot armed with a spray can that can reproduce any design (from Illustrator) on the wall.”