Mr. Future

The four-story fire-breathing car-crushing robot, Robosaurus, will be on the block this January 12-20 at the annual Barret Jackson Collector Car Event / Auction in Scottsdale Arizona.

The beloved engine of destruction and noise has been a favorite in the monster-truck circuit since 1990. Owning it, I’m sure, has been the dream of every nine year old that’s watched it messily dissect a Buick.

So if you bought your own four-story fire-breathing car-crushing robot, what would you do with it?

(A: Anything you wanted to. )

Link to the press release ( Car Buyer’s Notebook via Robots.net)

Bandai Japan just announced a terrific looking animatronic PC-Pal, based on the Tachikoma robot spiders from the Ghost in the Shell anime series.

The Tachikoma will connect to your PC via USB, and coupled with some custom Bandai software will move, talk, play games, record messages, play music and read your email aloud.

It looks like it will be a Japan market/language product only, and will retail for $114 this coming February. I wonder if they used any of Robo Garage’s Tachikoma work in their design?

“Voice Memo” and Minigame Software Pictured Above

Link (via Tokyo Mango)

Three Transformers fans from Nanjing sculpted, welded and bolted this colossal 1300 lb. close cousin of Bumblebee in Jiangsu, China.
Dubbed “X2,” the “life-sized” hand-sculpted resin, metal, and glass robot sculpture took 3 months to create, and cost more than $8,000.

“Every time we saw X2, we felt like he was full of life…and you felt that at any moment he’d start moving.”

The trio plans on building more.

Link (via Little Red Blog)