Boing Boing on MSN

Bulgarian artist's robot cartoon warned us 37 years ago

In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering ...
YouTube on MSN

Huggy Wuggy vs Cartoon Cat vs Spiky Robot Pacman

Pacman is chased by Huggy Wuggy, but he finds a hairball that transforms him to Cartoon Cat. Now Huggy Wuggy tries to escape, ...
Futurism

MIT Trained a Robot to Dress You Like a Cartoon Mad Scientist

There are a lot of things robots are good at. Automating manufacturing processes and helping humans accomplish repetitive tasks are just two examples. There are some jobs, though, robots struggle to ...
USA Today

Video footage of robot attacking human is computer-generated animation | Fact check

A May 8 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features a video appearing to show security footage of a robot working on an assembly line. "Robot attacks factory worker!" reads the text in the ...
Polygon

I made this Venn diagram to explain the year’s best animated movies

Robot Dreams and Flow are both silent movies, with a lot of emphasis on the characters’ physicality and how they express themselves without words. Survival adventure Flow is very grounded in how real ...
Variety

‘Robot Chicken,’ ‘Childrens Hospital,’ ‘We Bare Bears’ & More Heading to Comic-Con

Adult Swim and Cartoon Network are bringing a slew of shows to Comic-Con 2015 this summer. “Childrens Hospital,” “Robot Chicken” and “Mike Tyson Mysteries” are among Adult Swim’s convention ...