damn, I guess hobo was a bad example. that's depressing! well, maybe this prophesied collapse will create a landscape where it's viable.. can only hope!
+1 Yep if anything i would've assumed they'd take a look at japanese pop culture or games for that matter...yoji shinkawa's robotic designs for example. I wish ron cobb was doing it :(
The ED-209 is a pretty cool DON'T-example for design. The fail to focus interest, no clear shapes, pretty much the opposite of reducing it to the relevant and the general level of shit can be used to learn a lot about art. :D Well, I guess I'll rewatch the real Robocop. Again.
the other thing about these new greebly robot designs is how easily would they get gunked up with shit from the desert or even city? I just don't buy that any sane designer who has to build a battle-hardened easily maintainable robot would leave all this delicate looking articulation open to the elements. I'm not saying it…
Our vision of the future changes all the time, however, past designs have proven to always come to life in the future vs. what we have today. For example, past designs imagined us having digital paper/screens which are thin yet robust enough to write on or watch TV, we currently have black/white digital papers, but the…