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“Back when I was at MIT, I took an amazing class with Sherry Turkle in which she discussed her ongoing work studying how people relate to seemingly-intelligent machines. She was particularly interested in the booming trend in Japan of children giving robots to their elderly parents. The robots theoretically serve a medical role — they can continuously monitor things like blood pressure or breathing patterns, and alert a doctor if something goes awry. But what really freaked Sherry out was that the robots were also posed as an emotional support. Since the children couldn’t be bothered to hang out with their near-death parents, they’d give ‘em a robot to talk to instead.”

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“Welcome to the ultimate in gorilla cover obsession! These covers are a result of many hours of scouring the web (mostly Ebay on a twice or thrice weekly basis) and a lifetime of collecting that has focused on gorilla covers in the past year or two. The galleries have climbed over the 500 mark (whew!) and I will likely cycle in new ones on a semi-regular basis. I think you will be hard pressed to find it’s equal anywhere!”

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“I’ve got a small business start-up up who’s goal is absolute world domination. This company is going to be huge and attract audiences throughout the entire universe. My only problem is, I need monkeys. Not big hairy mean monkeys, but little cute monkeys with personality…vector monkeys. Little vector bananas and coconuts are totally allowed as well.”

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“‘Our robots demonstrate that utilising the natural dynamics of the body can make robots much more efficient,’ says Steve Collins, a member of the team from the University of Michigan. ‘For any autonomous robots to be practical, they must be energetically efficient.’”

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“It started in Feb 2004 with Prada deciding that the ultimate accessory was a robot made of spare parts hanging from your belt, bag or key ring. Then Will Smith came to the big screen with I Robot, a story loosely based on the Asimov book of short stories. Now we see two more robot sightings: Hint Mags’ online robot fashion story and the release in March of ‘Robots’ a new cartoon from the creators of Ice Age.”

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Metafilter: “Why does the combination of any two of {monkey, robot, pirate, ninja} always amuse a nerd?” Uh-oh.

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HollerBot: Open Internet Robot: “I am bored, tired of waiting for a future filled with robots that never appears, so I decided to create a robot and help advance the technology to the point where robots may one day become commonplace in our everyday lives. My goals are to create a general purpose robot that i can control via the internet and communicate with the real world. it will most definitely run linux and will be pretty small.”

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NYT: “These days, if you’re willing to pay the asking price, you can put your name on just about anything — a basketball arena, a hospital wing, perhaps even a subway station. How humdrum. The Wildlife Conservation Society, on the other hand, is offering some true naming-rights excitement. The group will be auctioning off the chance to name a new species of monkey.”

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pjchmiel >> photos > others > pirates: “Pirates have been a vital part of my life since the early college days. Thanks to Arya for first emphasizing their place in the world, and Ryan for giving form to many inspired visions of them. This page is far from complete, I have dozens of other images (printed matter, drawings, stamps) that I may or may not be ambitious enough to scan someday. Until then, these’ll have to do…”

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“A venerable cabal bent on world-domination has sent one of their greatest champions to steal the reactor core… but so have their enemies. Bathed in atomic radiation, these champions — Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot — fight to the death, in order to claim the sweet, sweet uranium for their people… and victory!”

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Rum and Monkey: The Colossal Death Robot Test.

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