Nerdbots

Take a look behind the scenes of what goes on in our Nerdbots studio. Thanks to Ian Davidson for helping us put it together!

screenprinted poster

A public service announcement in its most marvelous form, this hand-made letterpress poster on recycled kraft cardstock would look perfect on our studio wall. Get one of your own for $20 from Yee-Haw’s etsy store.

Via Mighty Goods.

Robocabs

These great robot toys by artist and designer Mach505 are all made from spraypaint nozzles and covers. Called Robocabs, the toys are painted and held together by glue and powerful magnets and have moveable arms and heads.

Via Collect3d and brought to our attention by Brian Frolo. Thanks!

Bubblino in action from Adrian McEwen on Vimeo.

Check out Bubblino, a robot that takes commands from tweets and goes into action. Pretty sweet. Thanks to Sean Berger, who just so happens to be our web developer extraordinaire, for the heads up.

Botropolis has posted a roundup of 10 awesome robot Halloween pumpkins. There’s still time, so whip out your pumpkins and your carving tools and get busy.

Nebort

This little guy is just as adorable in the daylight as he is at night.

Dalek

This Dalek pumpkin is amazing. It doesn’t just look awesome, it also moves. We are swooning.

Punk-O-Tron

We were excited to see a familiar face in the roundup. We created this robot pumpkin a few Halloweens ago. I must say, our robots have gotten better over the years!

Visit Botropolis to see the other seven great creations. Have a nerdy and happy Halloween!

One of our robots, Plyaq, recently had the pleasure of visiting a local sixth grade class for a week-long project. He was on hand to help inspire students at Bluejacket-Flint Elementary in the creation of their own robots out of recycled materials. After watching a short video about our studio, parts-hunting and how we create our Nerdbots, classroom lessons reinforced topics of sustainability and reusing materials. “The best part was getting to baby-sit the Nerdbot,” said Emmily L., a student. “We called it bot-sitting.”

The sixth grade students made their own robots from recycled household materials and wrote descriptive paragraphs about the interests and hobbies of their creations, just like the bios of our Nerdbots. “Making our own Nerdbots was a lot of fun and really interesting,” said Brandy B. “They couldn’t be made from anything bought.”

We then visited the classroom with the very difficult task of selecting our favorite creations. Check out the six awesome robots that we picked:

Meet Galaxia, created by Anastasia M. “Galaxia is 10 years old. She loves bolt-with-oil soup. She is very nice if you get to know her. She loves her friends Frankenstein and Qyuu. And she always goes to the Home Depot and gets food. Galaxia’s dinner with Qyuu at the Rusty Apple was so, so good.”

Presenting The Keeper of Time by Wyatt G. “My robot is named The Keeper of Time. My robot loves to read adventure books like the Percy Jackson series. He likes to eat chocolate glazed donuts from Krispy Kreme and other unhealthy foods. Then he goes to the gym to burn the calories off by running on the treadmill for five minutes because he is so fast. He dreams about flying through the air with Superman and watching Big Ben tick. My robot hates eating healthy foods such as spinach. He hates anything with water in it like oceans and lakes. He hates drinking decaf coffee because he likes to be hyper so he can run on the treadmill even faster. He also dislikes lawyers and judges. He doesn’t like to learn new tricks.”

Introducing Robo Chef by Kyliegh M. “My robot, Robo Chef, loves to cook in his spare time. He also has a day job as a chef. He loves to have picnics, especially when he gets to make the food. If he is told he can’t cook, he throws a big fit. If he does not have access to an oven, he throws an even bigger fit.”

Meet Jerry Springer, designed by Austin B. “He loves things to do with space. In his spare time, he dresses up like an astronaut. Also he loves to jump rope. He is very funny and smart. His favorite sport is basketball. Another thing he likes to do is drawing. One of Jerry Springer’s downfalls is that he has bad gas.”

Presenting The Mexican Outlet by Andy C. “The Mexican Outlet loves to comb his hair. He also likes to eat hot and spicy tacos when he is hungry. He also loves to play with his friends Rob, King JJ, Billy Bob Joe Fred Junior and The Time Keeper. He also loves to say ‘yo mamma’ jokes. He likes the colors red, white and green. The Mexican Outlet can power up anything. He can lean back but he can’t jump. He is a good boy and will never harm someone unless they harm him. If someone ever harmed him, he would poke them so hard they would want to poke someone as hard as he poked them. Other than that he is a great person. His real secret is he could be looking up but still be looking at you.”

Introducing Neon, created by Jacob C. “Neon works at a light plant putting light bulbs in a box. He likes to go to the Pomona Lake. He really likes to go fishing at the lake on a boat. He likes to go wakeboarding with his friends. He likes to go camping at the lake to eat lots of marshmallows. Neon likes to eat Chinese. Neon loves to ride his bike to the park and play football with his friends. He likes to play with his robo dog, Softy. Neon and his dog go swimming at the lake. Softy loves to catch her flying soccer disk at the park.”

More photos of all the great robots created by the sixth graders at Bluejacket-Flint can be found on our Flickr page.