There’s a group on Flickr called “700 Things” that aims to collect 700 drawings in each of 700 categories. They already have 700 Pirates and 700 Robots going. Maybe they’ll start a monkey group. This is a spin-off of the 700 Hobo Names thing by John Hodgman.

Anyway, here are a couple images that have some RPM overlap: First, #298. Nauticon the Pirate Robot and second, #158. Captain Andromeda and the Space Monkeys. Yippee!

“The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots—and vice versa.

The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced last week.

“The move anticipates the day when robots, particularly intelligent service robots, could become a part of daily life as greater technological advancements are made,” the ministry said in a statement.

A five-member task force that includes futurists and a science-fiction writer began work on the charter last November.”

“A nifty unmanned rescue robot that enters in places where the fire fighter cannot penetrate in order to rescue people.”

“You seek Kaiju, Sentai, Super Robots, Chogokin, Microman, Shogun, Sofubi, Godaikin, Jumbomachinders…Gaiking, Getta Robo, Gundam, Ultraman, Macross, Mazinger, Robotech, Gatchaman. Sit down. We are here to help…” Go to www.toyboxdx.com.

Thanks Andrew!

“Welcome to At Sixes & Sevens, a new weekly feature in which I’ll get my list-making fix by selecting the six or seven best, worst, greatest, or what have you, in comic books. You see, I have a list infatuation that rivals the idiosyncrasies of the lamest Batman villain. Grocery lists, to-do lists, hit lists — it doesn’t matter. I’ll read them all. So, At Sixes & Sevens is all about enabling, really. Enough about you, you say, What about the robots? All right then: What about the robots?“

“As the title describes…cleaver huh? I though it’d be cool to single out some robots from my collection and just offer you their heads…it’s a flickr thang.”

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“For a monkey, not all images are created equal. A new report reveals that the animals value some pictures more than others and are willing to pay for the privilege of viewing the important ones. The results indicate that monkeys, like people, value information based on its social context.”

“The latest hobby, science and consumer robotics, artificial intelligence… ROBOT is a unique publication that … offer[s] the ‘how to do it’ for the robot enthusiast and robot hobbyist, as well as the ‘what’s going on’ in the expanding world of robotics for the interested layperson or technical professional.”

“Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals — the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.

The multistep spearmaking practice, documented by researchers in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees’ trust, adds credence to the idea that human forebears fashioned similar tools millions of years ago.”