只要有想法，就能将普通的事物变的神奇，一个经常在汽车工业中看到的冷冰冰的机器人，也有可能成为真正的艺术大师。来自德国柏林艺术工作室工程师Hermann August Weizenegger和作曲家Michalj Kekenj将这个变成现实。这一台机器人可以解析作曲家Michlj kekenj演奏的小提琴曲子，将其变成计算机数据，通过其特定算法将这些节奏变成机器人的轨迹，使用安装在末端的铣刀或者热风枪，将一大块的蜡雕刻成一件艺术品，当中一些非常不错的作品，则会重新用铜制作。
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10. MechaGodzilla
He’s 50 tons of space titanium in the shape of Godzilla! Need I say more? This monstrosity is the most weapon-equipped robot of all time with torpedo fingers, eye beams, a crazy 360-degree rotating head that creates a force field, and multiple guns in his toes, knees, shoulders and chest. And yet, Godzilla is somehow able to beat him by inexplicitly becoming a magnet (?!) Geek factor: The best part of the film comes when a Japanese scientist finds an odd metal found in a cave and says, "This material can only be space titanium." Of course! Best standard feature: Did I mention the 50 tons of space titanium?
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9. Robot Gunslinger
In the future, two men visit an amusement park that allows them to actually live out their Wild West fantasy―and the period parts are played by robots. This means that vacationers can fight them, shoot them, and even kill them as part of "the experience." But then, the robots go mad (for no discernable reason) and begin killing the guests (hey, I want a rebate!). The most frightening of the rampaging robots is The Gunslinger, played coldly and forcibly by Yul Brynner, in a performance that set the groundwork for Arnold’s terminator. Geek factor: It’s Yul Brynner! Even better, it’s Brynner spoofing his own character from The Magnificent Seven. Best standard feature: The slow saunter … that haunts you … with every step.
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8. Data
Originating on TV’s The Next Generation, android Data mixed Spock-like logic with childlike innocence and intense curiosity about humanity. A Lieutenant Commander aboard Picard’s Enterprise, Data made his movie mark with a dramatic character arc about what it means to be human in the last three Star Trek films. In the films, Data installs an emotions chip that allows him to feel (Generations), resists the temptation to become more human in exchange for selling out his crew (First Contact), and makes the ultimate sacrifice by giving his life for others (Nemesis). Geek factor: You gotta love any robot who has a pet cat. Best standard feature: Umm, maybe his jaundiced skin?
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7. Johnny-5
Killer robots are nothing new. Robots who like The Three Stooges? Now that’s special. Robot Number Five is one of several advanced Nova Robotics military robots created to be the perfect soldiers. But when lightning hits him, he begins to ask questions, reject commands, and think abstractly. Number Five is alive! Calling himself Johnny-5, the robot learns what it really means to be human: to love and to be loved, to learn the wonder of life (like dancing) and the horror of death. Amazing that a robot that looks completely machine-like could, by film’s end, feel so human. Geek factor: Why would Nova Robotics create a military weapon that looks so darn cute till it’s time to kill (when its big black eyebrows cock at an angle like an angry grandpa). Best standard feature: That rockin’ shoulder laser.
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6. Gort
Seven feet tall and solid metal, Gort is the ultimate imposing robot thug. He arrives via UFO with galactic spaceman Klaatu, who has come to warn Earthlings to quell the violence that results from all their irrational fears. But before he can deliver the message, the Earthlings freak out and start shooting at him―which only proves his point. With that, Gort lays down the law and starts melting stuff with his eye laser. That said, it’s not surprising why the rest of the galaxy lives in peace: Gort and friends. Klaatu explains: "For our policemen, we created a race of robots to patrol the planets in spaceships. At the first sign of violence, they react automatically against the aggressor." Gort is one bad dude. Menacing, featureless, and silent, he is the ultimate frightening, unstoppable robot. Geek factor: "Klaatu barada nikto." Best standard feature: The eye beam … but really, the dude is so tough he doesn’t even need it.
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5. Robby
The perfect manifestation of the 1950s dream of what robots could be, Robby is a cook, chauffeur, translator, fork lift, security guard―and loyal friend. He’s a polite, fully functional home machine―with a bulky form built completely out of ’50s technology and electronics. Because of that, he feels like he could be a reality―an illusion helped by his visible circuitry and mechanical features that make it seem like he’s literally working in front of you. Plus he tells jokes. Robby ultimately shows us that technology can equally aid good―or evil. Geek factor: When asked to commit violence, Roby’s circuits overheat, which is depicted by his head just turning pink. Best standard feature: He can replicate any product, such as the 60 gallons of bourbon he makes for one Earth solider.
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4. The Iron Giant
Easily the greatest animated robot, The Iron Giant is a space visitor who befriends a young boy, Hogarth, in the 1950s. But even though Giant is extremely human (his stomach even growls when hungry), he turns into a deadly weapon when threatened―a trait the film handles almost like a sinful urge the robot fights to suppress. When Hogarth shows the robot comic books, they agree that Giant can be Superman and not Atomo, a killer machine. Says Hogarth, "It’s bad to kill. Guns kill. You don’t have to be a gun. You are what you choose." In the end, Giant chooses to be Superman and sacrifices himself for others. This scene will make you tear up, but the final scene―which furthers the Giant’s comparison to Christ―will make you bawl. Geek factor: In one of the best voice-casting selections ever, Vin Diesel plays the Iron Giant. Best standard feature: The Giant’s kick-butt, full-out battle mode, complete with giant energy cannon, War of the Worlds-like serpent heads, and at least 5 more imaginative weapons.
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3. The Terminators
The Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator (a T-800) is one of the most cold, calculating and unstoppable machines ever―at least until the creepily persistent liquid-metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick) shows up in T2. And so with the creation of a more terrifying terminator, what happens to Arnold’s T-800? He becomes the hero―and one whose ultimate sacrifice makes grown men weep (okay, maybe just me). On a thematic level, the terminators use violence to preach against violence and ultimately show that even a creation made to do evil can be redeemed, taught to love, and realize the value of human life. Geek factor: The T-800 (Cyberdyne systems model no. 101) is living tissue over a super sweet hyper-alloy combat chassis. (Yes, I need to leave the house.) Best standard feature: The ability to find really cool leather clothes again and again.
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2. Der Maschinian-Mensch
The first major movie robot, German director Fritz Lang’s Machine-Human was way before her time. While many film robots―from as recent as the ’80s―now look silly and dated, the grandma of all film cyborgs still seems futuristic. In fact, her look isn’t far from that of Star Wars’ C-3PO―who didn’t show up for 50 years! Her story is pure sci-fi geekiness: A mad scientist built her to stand in for his long-lost love and in an attempt for revenge, he uses a Frankenstein-like experiment to make the droid look like the local hero Maria. Lang’s Machine-Human represents the power of technology to seduce and corrupt. In fact, the hazards of technology are compared to the building of the Tower of Babel: Both being attempts to reach God that result in more distance from him because of sinful human desires. Geek factor: Actress Brigitte Helm’s portrayal of the fake Maria is geek bliss because it’s just jerky movements and big eyes. Best standard feature: The ability to look like anyone "in less than 24 hours!"
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1. R2-D2 and C-3P0
For decades, most movie robots were just that: robotic―cold, speech-stilted, and subservient. But George Lucas (with much debt to the past) gave two odd, loyal, bickering droids actual personalities and created not only the world’s most recognizable robots, but one of the most beloved duos in film. In fact, they are integral characters who not only add to, but push along, the plot; we see the Star Wars universe through their eyes. And more than any metal character before them, you care about them. I still remember my mental torture in The Empire Strikes Back (okay, I was 3) when C-3PO was blasted and R2-D2 was swallowed! That emotional connection is a surprising feat, considering one character emoted solely through shaking and beeping. But still, these inseparable droids are two of the most three-dimensional and defined characters in the Star Wars canon. Geek factor: Okay, Episode III had better explain why C-3PO doesn’t realize he was built by Darth Vader! Best standard features: R2′s little saw and C-3PO’s ability to calculate the odds of anyone’s demise.
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It’s official now: this planet is about to be invaded by robots. The UN’s annual World Robotics Survey says the use of robots to do domestic work will surge seven-fold by 2007. That means over four million robots doing chores that have been the exclusive preserve of human beings: from mowing lawns and cleaning floors to babysitting and pulling guard duty. They may only be automated vacuum-cleaners that drive this domestic helper boom, but they’ll boost orders for industrial robots and ‘leisure’ robots like Sony’s all-dancing, voice-recognising, dog-like Aibo. High-end robots not only play football and jig (watch QRIO, Sony’s bipedal entertainment robot, showing off in Delhi this week), but are increasingly used for specialised and sometimes dangerous jobs in scientific and medical research, defence and surveillance. ‘Service robots’ carry out tasks like handling toxic waste, ferrying medicine around hospitals and assisting surgeons with the same elan as they milk cows or clear mines.
Ever since Karel Capek coined the word ‘robot’ from a Czech word for ‘work’, these creations have evolved faster than you can say Capek. Sci-fi helped them mutate into androids and cyborgs, and today technology can virtually translate them into bionic humans ― an entity whose organic and mechanical parts are melded completely. For years, researchers tinkered away on prototype gizmos to make humanoid robots ‘smarter’ by developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Take the original ‘iron man’ the Americans developed in 1972: it stood over six feet, weighed a hefty 100 kilos, and used its computer brains to wander through the corridors of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory in Baltimore, surprising the unwary. Actually robots only need the object recognition of a two-year-old, and the dexterity of a six-year-old, to substitute humans in everything from manufacturing to healthcare for the elderly. But this is easier said. Currently, the best robots have neither the pliant hands nor the sensors for touch, moisture and temperatures to handle objects half as well as, say, a dog does with his teeth and paws. They don’t have human vision capabilities either to compensate for shadows or recognise facial changes that happen over time.
Organising AI along biological lines got a leg-up in 2000 when scientists created a bionic chip that mixes human cells with layers of silicon to incorporate a live biological cell in the electrical circuit. Fancy having a man-machine interface where each neuron and integrated circuit hums with synchronised electrical fidelity. Robots could then be provided with sexual identities, personalities and real feelings. Israeli scientists have designed robots that embody man-like muscles and can see, talk and even feel. And the machine that can create another machine has been invented using GOLEM (genetically organised life-like electro-mechanics), suggesting a possible future where robots outnumber man and rule the world.
Remember, robots evolve millions of times faster as man combines separate improvements directly, while nature has to depend on fortuitous events of recombination to drive evolution. Your cortex may accommodate a billion bits of permanently retrievable information; but computers transfer this from one magnetic memory to another in less than a minute. Still, a child tossing up a ball and catching it is too intricate a feat for the advanced robots to perform. "At least for now." Er… that was the computer!
Tags: AI,android,Art,Dancing,Feeling,industrial robot,robot,WORK,工作思考,机器人信息,机器人信息October 17, 2004 – First it was econ omy cars, then slightly moreemotional machines like the Yan kees' Hideki Matsui. Now the hot new Japa nese import is ifbot ― a pint- sizedpersonal robot that knows when you're happy or sad, can teach youJapanese and loves to hug. Ifbot is the latest and greatest in the new trend of"companion robots," already a hit with Japanese kids and their parents. Starting next year, designers are hoping they'll rush off the shelves here, too ― for a cool $5,000. "He's too cute! I could hang out with him for hours," said YaoLi, 25, a scientist from Boston. "I've been talking to him just fiveminutes, and he already knows my favorite colors, food and that I'mlooking forward to a friend's party tonight." Li and more than a thousand other gadget geeks got a firstlook at ifbot at the DigitalLife exhibition at the Javits Center. The handshaking, dancing toy says things like, "You seem tolike me, and I like you ― let's play together" and "I'm feeling prettysad ― maybe if we talk for a while you could cheer me up!" "He's been two years in the making and is the most advancedand certainly the most fun out of all the robots in Japan," saidcreator Yoshimichi Hashiba.
