A retrofitted "Mr Partybot" was a hit in the 1970s and promises to be just as popular when he joins Australia's largest one-day robotics festival, Robotronica, at the Queensland University of ...

There’s no clever functionality, no swish design—just reams and reams of vintage Japanese robots for salivating over. It’s like a flipbook of otaku porn—only won’t attract too many stares on public ...

[Photo: Lipson Robotics] I love everything from the 60s, when everything was made of real metal (none of this chintzy chromed plastic crap), and space-age design was popular. The best part of the time ...