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The original 6889 (brickset.com/sets/6889-1/Recon-Robot) occupies a real place in my heart - I got it following an operation when I was a kid, so it's one of the few sets I can definitely pinpoint receiving. I've wanted to do a remade version for a while, and though this is not perfect, I'm rather happy with how it came out.
Non so se per un modello CB108 si possa parlare di amore, ma credo che lui mi ami. Non è forse la massima prova di amore sacrificare la propria vita per un altro? Inoltre, quello che gli ho chiesto, va contro le leggi della robotica, ma lui ha promesso che lo farà per me. Ho dovuto chiederglielo, non potevo più aspettare, anche se non avrei mai voluto metterlo in questa situazione. Ricordo come fosse ieri il giorno dell’acquisto, ormai quasi ventisette anni fa.
Non era nuovo, ma ricordo che appena il concessionario lo attivò, mi fece subito simpatia. Era uno dei primi modelli della serie, con scocca non ancora ibrida, ma ancora umanoide.
Una volta, si pensava che un aspetto umano si sarebbe inserito meglio all’interno di una famiglia, ma non fu così, gli incidenti causati da tensioni emotive si susseguivano, fino a far decidere di cambiare completamente l’estetica delle serie successive. La CB310 ad esempio, è tutta bianca e di umano ha solo il profilo. La gente è più serena, anzi, secondo me si sente più libera e autorizzata nel maltrattare i robot senza una faccia che li guardi. Ma io non avevo i crediti per un modello nuovo, quindi il problema non mi si poneva. Rob, come lo ho chiamato, aveva un aspetto abbastanza originale per il modello, due baffi a manubrio, capelli a spazzola ed un programma vocale che si era bloccato sull’accento russo. L’unico difetto, mi aveva specificato il rivenditore. Le prime volte risi nel sentirlo parlare con quella cadenza, ma ora non potrei farne a meno, anzi, credo che userei le stesse impostazioni su un modello nuovo, che comunque non avrò.
Si farà disattivare per me.
Le tre leggi della robotica recitano:
1- Un robot non può recare danno ad un essere umano ne può permettere che,
a causa del suo mancato intervento, un essere umano riceva danno.
2- Un robot deve obbedire agli ordini impartiti dagli esseri umani,
purché tali ordini non vadano in contrasto alla Prima Legge.
3- Un robot deve proteggere la propria esistenza,
purché la salvaguardia di essa non contrasti con la Prima o la Seconda Legge.
Ma lui mi ucciderà. Glielo ho chiesto io. E per questo sarà disattivato. Sento le sue mani serrarsi attorno alla mia gola e so che non si fermerà. Volevo morire con qualcosa che fosse il più vicino possibile ad un contatto ed il rivestimento sintetico delle sue mani è fino ad ora la cosa più vicina alla pelle umana. Sento nelle orecchie la sua voce : “Buon viaggio padroone”.
Non smetterei mai di ascoltare quelle sue vocali raddoppiate…
Quanto mi piace…!
Nella foto, un opera di
Soledad Agresti
I designed this fun, little guy for the Between The Pages blog. betweenthepagesblog.typepad.com/between-the-pages-blog/
sometimes I do small and personal commissions for nice people who just want me to draw a thing for them - #Jon Boam #Drawing
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha + Impossible PX70 film.
'Roid Week 2011.
Day 2.
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What do you do about servicing remote outposts in space that are too far for humans to travel? You send robots, of course! Equipped with tv screens, fruit machines and fly swatters, these formidable machines will not only conquer anything that dare stand in their way, but they are also well sorted for entertainment.
Robot Royal 36
with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/45
What a machine! A 35 mm rangefinder camera with interchangeable lenses and built-in spring driven film advance. It is somewhat bigger and heavier than comparable models (with manual film advance) of the mid-1950ies, like perhaps the Leidolf Lordomat. First of all it has two springs in the bottom, which makes the body higher. Furthermore the Robot features a special rotary shutter. Unlike a behind-the-lens leaf shutter it is placed in the camera body and not in front of it, which makes the body thicker. And finally the camera is just massive, the back door and the hinge are probably the most solid ones I've seen on such a camera. Perhaps it has to be so rigid: it can transport the film with 4 to 5 frames per second, which is as fast as a Nikon F4 without MB-21.
On some items the operation differs from other cameras.
* The big lever under the lens is not for focusing, but for mounting and unmounting the lens. At its end every lens has three segments with a thread. You just attach the lens and turn the lever, then a ring catches that parted thread very tightly. That works quickly, easy and safely.
* There are three little tabs on the focus ring, which make it very comfortable to focus. Especially fine focusing can be done with only one finger.
* The Robot is equipped with a powerful motor drive, so you expect rapid continuous shooting. Most Robots Royal I've seen have a lever at the "Royal 36"-badge at the front side, to choose between single or continuous shooting, but not this one. So, if you fully press down the shutter button at once, the shutter will fire once. If you press the shutter button halfway and hold it, the shutter will fire continuously, until you release it or you press it down completely. You need some practice to that safely, and I don't know if it is a bug or a feature.
* A big item: those film cassettes Robot cameras usually use. You can load a Royal with a common 35 mm cassette, but the "take-up spool" has to be an NR-cassette, which makes film loading not that easy. A nice detail: when the camera back is closed, the mouth of the cassette is opened to reduce the friction, when the film is transported. You can accelerate the film advance further, when you replace the common film cartridge on the feeding side by a TR-cassette, which has the same mechanism. The TR-cassette has to be loaded with film by yourself then.
* The design of the rewind wheel is just awesome. It automatically rises, when it is turned in the direction of the arrow. But the real ingenious idea is, that the shaft inside the camera, which is coupled with the film spool normally, is retracted when the rewind wheel is not in use. So the rewind wheel will not turn during the film advance and the film advance can not be impeded by accident, for example by your awkward left hand.
And when you've rewound a film, don't forget to lower the rewind wheel again, otherwise you can't take out the film cartridge.
* There is a little shifter on the back. In position "red" the shutter button is locked and the viewfinder is half-closed. When using "B" also the pressed shutter button can be locked. Position "R" is for rewinding, then the complete viewfinder is closed.
Some notes:
* The camera may be extraordinary, the viewfinder isn't.
* The frame counter must be reset manually. You have to press the tiny button on top near the shutter button and turn a little wheel on the back.
* You have X-synchronization with all shutter speeds.
* As you can see, the camera has a nice extra foot.
* I often read, that the range of shutter speeds is 1/2 to 1/500 s (and B). My exemplar can do 1/4 to 1/500 s (and B).
The Robot Royal was produced for three frame formats, besides the Royal 36 for 24x36 it was made for the classic Robot square format 24x24 (Royal 24) and for the half-frame format 18x24 (Robot 18). That Robot was also available without viewfinder, then it is called Robot Recorder. There exists also a Recorder 6 for 6x24 frames, and the Recorder was available with (not the 6) or without rewind mechanism. So you can imagine, that those Robots were used a lot in industry and science, and perhaps you've experienced, that Robot cameras were used for traffic surveillance (speed limit control). They are exposure machines; a professional analog 35 mm SLR was planed for perhaps 300.000 exposures, that is a number a Robot can only smile about. Remember, that it has a rotary shutter similar to movie cams. In a movie cam the shutter makes 25 frames a second, several hours a day.
Since the Robot was made for different formats, there are lenses intended only for the smaller 24x24 format, it's like the thing with APS-C and full-frame on digital cameras today. Robot found a way to prevent the use of 24x24 lenses on the Royal 36, practically the camera has two tabs in the bayonet mount and the 24x36 lenses the according two notches, while the 24x24 lenses has only one notch. With that method 24x36 lenses can still be used on the Robot 24. I've read, that there are Robot 36 cams with one notch removed, so for example the standard lenses for the Robot 24 (38 and 40 mm) will fit, but may cause vignetting.
Perhaps you've noticed, that the distance scale on my Xenar is given in feet only. So, the camera certainly was sold in the US, and indeed, a sticker on the bottom says, it was owned by "Stretch" in Los Alamos, New Mexico. I did an Internet research and I really found him. He left a collection of movies and pictures made between 1950 and 1997, archived by the Northern Arizona University and available. His main subjects were rivers, mostly the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. The collections contains nearly 1000 slides, and perhaps some of them were taken with that Robot above. Maybe this link works:
cdm16748.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/cpa/search...
This is my first ever attempt at a small Lego robot/mecha. Giving it lots of movable joints for posing was an interesting challenge. Which was ultimately futile, because it can only balance when it posed like this. But believe me, the playability is pretty high.
Thanks to Ryan for trading me the perfect parts.
Rampax is from a series of six 5" plastic robots made by CGGC in Italy. They were sold in kit form and had to be assembled. I don’t know when they were first produced, but I was given the individually boxed Rampax in 1985.
The six robots were not completely different, but shared components such as arms, legs and feet. These pieces were all interchangeable and it seems that some were randomly packed out, so the makeup of specific robots was inconsistent. Each robot had two distinct, spring launched weapons. The long weapon for the bent right arm protruded from the elbow and hooked in place; pushing up on the hook launched the weapon. The left arm had a mechanism in the shoulder that held the weapon in place while the arm was down, but launched the devise when the arm was raised.
The robots were also distributed in France by a company named Remus, which sold them in two sets of three. The French packaging was quite different from the Italian boxes that I’ve seen, but the plastic parts were still molded in Italy. Again, I have no idea of the original time line for these, but I obtained an incomplete set in 1991.
Five of the robots - Drakis, Torang, Fergus, Argon and Rampax - kept their names for both Italian and French issues. The sixth one, originally Satan in Italy, was renamed Mirox in France. I guess that the French didn’t want kids playing with the devil.
CIA's Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs developed the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) fish to study aquatic robot technology. The UUV fish contains a pressure hull, ballast system, and communications system in the body and a propulsion system in the tail. It is controlled by a wireless line-of-sight radio handset.
For more information on CIA history and this artifact please visit www.cia.gov
A metal sliver ground off with a slight heat tint and a hint of carbon. Garnished with fine drilled shavings and topped with 5W 40 engine oil.
Taken with Nikon D7000, Nikon 55mm f/2.8 AI-s, PK-13 extension tube, TC-14B teleconverter and SB-80DX flash.
To end it all, here is a smattering of leftover pictures. There are still more robots though, as apparently we are moving into Transformers Week next...
The 1950s was a particularly good decade to be a toy robot.
In America and Europe, the depiction of robots always had a threatening undertone. In fact, the word "robot" comes from Czech playwright Karel Capek's 1920 play, "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots," wherein humanoid machines designed to toil in a factory are given emotions and turn violent, destroying humankind. (Collectors Weekly)
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This robot was a bit creepy because it always turned its head in the direction someones face was. It felt much more personal by trying to advertise to you by looking with it's cute big eyes into your from down there.
(Originally published at: jeena.net/photos/351)
Model: Keiko Barbie Basic Model No.06 on Made to Move body
Outfit and hairstyling: me and my mom
Red shoes: Barbie S.I.S Babyphat Kara
A rather unsettling billboard in the foreground actually describes BNSF 1529 quite well. Built in 1958 as GP9 NP 348, some "robotic surgery" in the form of a major rebuild and a couple paint jobs have left the unit looking nothing like it's former self.
Grand Forks ND.
making lots of marker drawings of robots for my exhibition space at GRAFIXX in Antwerp.
#Jon Boam #drawing #robots
At a research meeting at Leeds University. We had a chance to play on the daVinci robot that used to be used for surgical applications. These are the "surgical fingers" of the device with a training plate. the operator is in the background.
Some of my robots went on a rare outing this weekend to guest/exhibit at Barley (Pendleside) Lancashire May Bank Holiday model engineering show.
Enhanced Omnibot shows off the new grippers on his power arms. His brain is a stack of 5 UNOs - 1 master and 4 slaves which control his servos, his synthesized voice (SPO256 "Narrator" using allophones), and his front panel matrix display.
This amazing Robot paid a visit to our offices yesterday.
The movement and sound was so realistic. When it moved it sounded like ED-209 and could go at quite a pace, barging through the crowds.
It also had an extensive repertoire of catchphrases and was prone to sing 'When I fall In Love' to any passing females!
I was hilarious to see this robot charging around the campus with a 'flock' of humans with cameraphones tracking it's every move!
V.O.R
Created by Nik Fielding
ESA astronaut candidate Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium during a robotics session as part of his basic astronaut training at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre, near Cologne, Germany.
The first building block of International Space Station robotics training in the curriculum of ESA’s 2022 astronaut candidate class is called GRAVI-T training.
During this session, they delve into generic robotic training, focusing on learning how to manipulate the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
Robotic arms on the Station are used to grab and berth cargo vessels such as Japan’s HTV and the Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus. They can also help astronauts during spacewalks by moving an astronaut strapped to the end of the arm to hard-to-reach places on the outside of the International Space Station. It can even replace a spacewalk altogether.
Under the supervision of instructors at the Astronaut Centre, the candidates use the Dynamic Skills Trainer, a console training tool, to operate the robotic arm within a simulated environment.
In addition, the astronaut candidates undergo virtual reality sessions to gain a better understanding of the 17-metre-long robotic arm's operations aboard the Station.
ESA’s newest class of astronauts, including Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Marco Sieber, and Raphaël, commenced basic astronaut training in April 2023. The group was selected in November 2022.
The one-year training provides an overall familiarisation and training in various areas, such as spacecraft systems, spacewalking, flight engineering, robotics and life support systems. They go through survival and medical training before receiving ESA astronaut certification in spring this year.
After certification, they will move on to the next phases of pre-assignment and mission-specific training, paving the way for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.
Credits: ESA