Pabst Blue Robot!

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The RealMattDamon took a misunderstanding and turned it into Oscar gold:

“I thought it was ‘robot transvestites’”

$20 Robot is back in action after a brief hiatus. It seemed only right then to start off with Asimo kicking off the Edinburgh Science Festival:

And don’t forget we want your submissions. Drawings, costumes, craftwork. Have you made anything that is robot themed and cost you less than 20 bones? We want to see pictures.

Send them to editor@20dollarrobot.com

Yeah, it’s from last year and Sarah Conner Chronicles is more than a little rusty, but who doesn’t want to see a Terminator throw the Fox-Bot a beating?

So we all know what Sunday is and I’m linking this clip in hopes that if this sport takes off eventually we could have Sega Powerball in real life:

I guess traditionally one makes predictions about the winner of the upcoming battle. We are going to have to go with The Steelers purely on their more robot-like name.

Anyone want to make a robot out of Super Bowl snack foods? Take some snaps and shoot them over to editor@20dollarrobot.com.

This week we’ve got a tasty lookin’ robot from Angie. He certainly looks like that kind of friendly “Just here to serve you” house robot we all plan on building, and the good news is that chances are he will be consumed and digested long before he can go malevolent like we know all robots will eventually. Like Jurassic Park or something. Anyways here’s Angie’s $20 Robot:

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Gallagher27 took some time from watermelon smashing to bring the world some good stuff:

“painting a robot riding a giraffe. but i’m out of silver spray paint. /ugh”

This is not a skill robots should be given yet. Builders take note. Get us a much better bartenderbot before you give then the ability to round us up for enslavement or we will be fighting each other for the entertainment of robot overlords before too long.

Japan Unveils Crime-Fighting Robot

Send us your non-enslaving budget robots! Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Brag a little.

So this video is making the rounds and seeing that we had a bit of a break down this week is seems fitting:

Let’s try to avoid this next week. You $20 or less robotic themed creations go here editor@20dollarrobot.com. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Some growing pains over here at $20 Robot means no creation for this week.

All we can offer is this:

You can always submit photos of your Jacksonian Mechanoids to editor@20dollarrobot.com.