April 12 at 10:31am

Robot Music: Live In New York

So you want that big sound of many people making music at the same time but just don’t have enough friends who bang drums?  Just invite some robots over and start jamming.

If you need some tips from the robo-masters, Mike Hearst. (featured below) is going to be performing LIVE at Here (145 6th Ave. NY, NY (between Spring & Broome, enter on Dominick) in NYC next weekend. For Tickets & Information: www.here.org or call 212-352-3101 

Songs about ice cream trucks and unusual animals being played on funny instruments (tuba, theramin, stylophone, claviola) and accompanied by a batallion of self-playing musical instruments, ie: musical robots. It’s a very happy experience.

For this event Michael Hearst will perform a selection of new compositions inspired by some of the lesser known animals that roam the planet. From the Australian Bilby, to the deep-sea Magnopinna Squid, the songs will be brought to life by Michael Hearst (One Ring Zero / Songs For Ice Cream Trucks) on theremin and claviola, Ron Caswell (Slavic Soul Party) on Tuba, Ben Holmes (One Ring Zero) trumpet and flugelhorn, and Allyssa Lamb (Las Rubias Del Norte) on keyboard, plus a gaggle of musical instrument robots provided by LEMUR.



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March 28 at 10:04am

Robo Roundup: Reallife RoboCop & Iron Giant.

This robo throws a net at robbers.  The RoboCops are coming; don’t mess with them.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, remember how at the end of Iron Giant, the pieces started to put themselves together again?  Well, we just got one step closer to that future too.



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March 1 at 11:01am

Crazy Animals #7: Fish With A See Through Head

Macropinna has a see-through head and tubular eyes.  It can also outsmart a robot.


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February 26 at 12:11pm

Hope For A Different Sort Of Change

We love our President.   And we have a lot of Hope.  And we are all about change.  But laughs are pretty important in our bowl.  This earned some for sure, but got bonus stars for the robots.

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January 16 at 11:16am

Robo Roundup: Farmers & Actors

(thanks BoingBoing!)
And here’s a post how robots are now replacing actors on stage in Japan.

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January 9 at 10:59am

Evolution Of Technology

True, true this is another commercial.  We have a complicated relationship with commercials in The Bowl.  

What else is given the budget to make something like this other than something they think can sell sell sell?  And you need a big ‘ol budget to create robots like these.  So we just grin and bear it, and think it is kind of swell that we get 48 seconds of robos for free.  Plus we get a little foreign language lesson on top of it.

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December 7 at 5:07pm

Astro Boy Returns!

He doesn’t look as sweet this time…

The old shows in B&W and the newer ones get a lot of play in our bowl.  We will be at the head of the line when the new feature debuts.  Click here to see the first trailer.  We are hungry for more.

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