Robot Revolution / Peppermelon Animation

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Robots are used on battlefields to fight wars, but today on BBtv -- an infomercial for robotic revolution from the Institute for Applied Autonomy. Founded in 1988, the group describes themselves as:

... a technological research and development organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists.

Those technologies include a grafitti-spraying robot to denounce The Man, a cute and seductive pamphleteer, and a txt app for your phone, so you can invite all your pals to come riot.

Next in today's episode: animated square-headed beings from the beautiful genius minds behind Peppermelon.tv.

[#1 posted by License Farm , January 18, 2008 7:51 AM]

Though they don't get to talk about it, you briefly see one of my favorites of IAA's projects, i-See, a map of Manhattan that shows where all the public security cameras are posted and the shortest route between two points to avoid as many of them as possible. (It doesn't appear as though it's been updated in at least a couple years, though, so your guess is as good as mine whether that info is still accurate.)

[#2 posted by BenjaminWright , January 18, 2008 10:33 AM]

As robots become more common, legal issues will arise. Contracts will be one tool for regulating robot behavior.