Sorry about it being black and white – I haven’t had a chance to color it.
I will do so though… Just not today.
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I won’t always be bringing you news of the impending Robot Apocalypse – occasionally I’ll be adding occasional art to the archive.
In this sketch, Alex is exploring an old sanitarium. These sketches are generally done on card stock (as opposed to the digitally-created comic pages), and many will be available as original, unique art at future cons.
These sketches are examples of how much the world “lives” in my head, and I hope that I can share that world with you through this medium.
Have you heard about the new William Tell robot? Put together by the Italian Institute of Technology, iCub is a small humanoid robot used as a platform to research a wide variety of topics.
This little guy learned to hit a target with his bow and arrow, self-correcting its aim until it hit the bull’s eye. They’re doing it to teach the robot fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
I can’t see anything going wrong here.
Not at all.
Aaaand we’re back. Whew.
It was a bit of a struggle to get this page done. Honestly, I think I was a little intimidated by it. I’ve never done so complex a drawing directly into the computer before – usually I draw it out on paper first and scan it in.
Well, art woes aside, I also have some fun robot-news to share.
Have you seen the Time Travel Mart? They have their own website as well.
Apparently it’s a place to help young people with their creative writing skills and help teachers get better at teaching kids how to write. As cool as that is, I cannot get over the fact that they’ve seen the future and even come back with some of it!
Be warned – the future is coming.
Have you seen the BEAR from Vecna Technologies?
I have a couple things to say:
1. Why are we teaching incredibly strong, agile robots how to open doors, move bombs and place humans on examination tables for other robots to experiment on them?
2. Didn’t the owners of Vecna Robotics know that Vecna is actually one of Advanced Dungeon &Dragons’ really REALLY bad bad-guys?? Honestly, he’s one of the worst:
So I ask you: How on earth are we supposed to trust robots in our house if THESE are the robots we’re actually developing??
It’s been a heck of a week here at Zombots. First I had to fend off feral, ravenous, formerly-domesticated pets… It gets rough around here when my cats are hungry. On Thursday, I was nearly run over by a wild robot careening through the halls of a hospital. Then this weekend, I got to go to the California Academy of Sciences, where I had to navigate vicious albino alligators, dangerous fish and rabid skeletal birds. Kat was along and took some photos.
Finally, sometime during the week, I learned how Robots are going to take our jobs.
It all starts here:
(Photo courtesy of the Mercury news)
Welcome to the official launch of Zombots!
This project has been something like 2 years in the making – possibly longer. It’s really exciting to see it launch with the official first page!
The schedule is weekly on Tuesdays. I may occasionally update with a second comic later in the week (Thursday or Friday, depending) but that really depends on how much OTHER stuff I have to get done.
With a once a week update, I’m planning on having a larger blog that what resides on Hell Has Found Me. I hope you enjoy reading Zombots as much as I enjoy making it. Feel free to leave a comment below or send me an email!
As for interesting signs of our forthcoming robot overlords, Stanford researchers have developed a better artificial nose.
“Another of our long-term goals is to print these sensors on plastic, and if the spots were big enough to see, you could see the color changes,” Kool said. “You could hold a black light over the sensor and read the response. Then you could match up the color of the sensor with a key of some sort and say, ‘Ah, this sensor best compares with this color on the key – this milk is about to go sour.’”
Given a smart enough robot, it would be able to process smells on its own. One step closer to having your own maid robot in your home.