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From lab to runway - the Robot Bride shines (whirrrrs?) on her wedding day. Stay with the video for family photo session and interview.
 
 

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Robots Burns, Crowd Tears Up the Dance Floor and Brings Down the House
 
July 19 saw the grand re-opening event at Museum of Robots in Second Life. After an extensive redesign, with the addition of new exhibits, more space for the permanent collection and new theatre and event space, we hosted an event to celebrate.
 
We began by building and burning a large robot in the lava pit - the event was so well attended that the planned automatic destruction was completed manually for the safety of the audience. Fireworks and pyrotechnic displays filled the night sky.
 
Immediately following the robot torching, the massive crowd was entertained by popular artist Mankind Tracer, who played his top hits, as well as requests from the crowd.
 
Mankind was backed by his dancing Tracerettes, who wore the official Museum of Robots spacesuit. Many people attended in robot, android and cyborg avatars, and the crowd danced and sang along with the music.
 
The event brought down the house and introduced Museum of Robots to a new audience.
 
The burning robot was such a success that we've built it back in the lava pit for the week - visit it at
 
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kubrick/98/161/26

                       

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Join us tonight at 5PM SLT for Movie Nite - UNKNOWN WORLD 1951
 
The Prophet of Doom, fearing that atomic weapons will destroy all life on earth, recruits a group of scientists for his Society to Save Civilization, and they drill to find a living space deep within the earth where man can survive and rebuild from the nuclear holocaust they see just over the horizon.
 
Meet at the Lava Pit:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kubrick/98/161/26

   

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Our vote for best trailer of the year (so far), this preview for RoboGeisha hits plenty of cultural high points blending robots and geishas. Sorta like bacon and chocolate - who knew robots and geisha would work so well together?
 
Add in some transformer action, schoolgirls, and advanced weaponry (bust machine guns - now that's handy!), if the film is even slightly as entertaining as the trailer, it should be a goody.
 
http://www.robogeisha.com/
 

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We met Janel from Apartment Therapy at the Housewares show in March and she was kind enough to remember our stuff and post about it today. Thanks Janel!
 
And the readers' comments warm our hearts...it's good to know that we're not the only ones who think that robots go with just about anything!
 
http://tinyurl.com/mrdt7c

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Today is Robby, the Robot's (of Forbidden Planet fame) 54th birthday, and we'd like to celebrate by telling the story of Robby's restoration by Fred Barton, AKA 'The Robotman', the world's leading producer of studio-licensed celebrity robots.
 
Fred first met Robby in person in the 1970's at Movie World in southern California, and was inspired to make a reproduction at home. He turned leg parts on a pottery wheel, vacuum formed parts in his mother's kitchen, molded plaster, and made parts in shop class. After a steady year of work, Fred debuted the Robby costume at a Star Trek convention in 1974 to cheers.
 
17-year-old Fred next took his Robby to meet the original at Movie World. Impressed with Fred's work, the owner of Movie World asked Fred to restore the original Robby, so Fred packed Robby into his parent's '71 Lincoln Continental and took him home.
 
He carefully molded every part of Robby, taking it apart and repairing decades of damage and wear-and-tear. After two months of work, the original Robby was returned to Movie World, where Fred continued to be his caretaker, making and replacing parts as they were stolen by souvenir hunters.
 
Movie World eventually closed and Robby was sold to a private collector. Media appearances of Robby have since been made by Fred's replica Robby, and he was granted the first-ever license to make a full-size Robby by Warner Bros, so collectors can now purchase fully mechanized and computerized Robby statues.
 
Visit Museum of Robots' Celebrity Robots Hall of Fame to see more about Robby and Forbidden Planet: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kubrick/98/161/26
 
For the full story of Robby's restoration, visit the Museum of Robots' Annex for the Robby Restoration exhibit:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imzadi/45/238/500/?title=Museum%20of%20Robots%20Annex

     

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We've finished the remodel - more prims, so more events! We're open for business now, but are always on the hunt for a good excuse to have a party, so we're hosting a Grand Reopening event on Sunday, July 19.
 
Ribbon-cutting at 130pm, and a performance by Mankind Tracer at 2pm.
 
Wear you robot av, and if you don't have one, pick one up for free at our attraction, Mankind's Marvelous Mecha Machine.

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Seriously, I do this all the time in real life, but now my avatar closes her eyes when her picture is taken? The lines are really blurring....

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I've been a resident of Second Life for so long that I tend to to stick to the jobs there, which is mostly keeping Museum of Robots tidy and the events and exhibits running smoothly. It may be a wide and vast virtual world, but I don't get out much.
 
It's easy to forget the thrill of discovery of a new virtual world so when I had a chance to tour Reaction Grid http://www.reactiongrid.com/ today, I grabbed an avatar and jumped in. I could pick any name, so in the spirit of consistency, I remain Bibi Bayliss, with blue hair, on Reaction Grid.
 
It's built on OpenSim and I accessed it via the Hippo OpenSim Viewer, so once I reached my destination it all felt very familiar, in a Second Life sort of way.
 
Reaction Grid says about themselves:
Create, learn, share and, explore on ReactionGrid - the 3D Virtual World for business, education, collaboration, and learning. We offer a PG/PG13 experience with content created by our residents (often refered to as Gridizens), and provide a friendly and open environment for all to come and share thoughts and ideas.
 
Reaction Grid's team are Kyle, Robin and Chris, who spent a lot of time introducing me to their vision (BIG thanks, guys) , which is based on education and collaboration.
 
Their programming skills, teamed with a desire to visually express data in an online 3D world, leads to an impressive display of possibility - and if that sounds esoteric and kinda out there, just go visit. Once you've seen a 'mummy' that responds to electrical surges from real life and a sim-sized polytope, you'll be sold.
 
Me? I headed over to the 1929 World's Fair HQ sim, an exhibit of all the great new technology that the visionaries of 1939 presented...US Steel, where are you now?
 
Saturday nights they have old movies, and since Reaction Grid is a PG world, they host regular school field trips, where the kids learn to script and build.
 
Time (and object permissions) permitting, I'd love to set up a Museum of Robots annex on Reaction Grid, as the founding team are robot fans, and darned nice people. And to think we met on Twitter....

   

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