Experts predict (or frighten) that one of the main scientific trends in the next few years will be the development of artificial intelligence technologies. And what is the AI ​​without bodily incarnation? Hearing the phrase "artificial intelligence", many imagine robots with bad intentions, stone in the bosom, I'll be back, that's all. We hope that this will not happen. After all, we, like all sensible and progressive humanity, love robots in general, as a class. And today we offer you a selection of various videos, one way or another dedicated to robots and other mechanical creatures.

Transformers

You can have a different attitude to Transformers. Often opinions are divided into two categories: "Very cool" and "What nonsense." But nevertheless everyone will agree with one statement - “Transformers” are devilishly spectacular. At the same time, there is a peculiar inverse relationship between scope and violence on the screen and interestingness. From the point of view of the story about the last part of the good, there is nothing to say, but just see what beauty there is, the blood of the intestine, all of them ... are ruined.

Samurai from the assembly shop

Industrial robots are often quite boring from the narrow-minded point of view of a machine: inconspicuous, sharpened only for some specific operation, work monotonously, no intrigue. More surprising are the performances of these industrial robots from ABB Robotics:

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Abiogenesis

Very interesting fantastic animated video about a kind of race of robots inhabiting a lifeless planet.

Horrible dream bun

A small, fragile-looking platform with six servomotors allows you to hold the ball at any given point, as well as roll it along a predetermined path.

People's car

An interesting video from Volkswagen, which beautifully shows the different stages of car assembly. Scenes with various automated areas, saturated with all sorts of robots moving with the efficiency of surgeons, were especially successful.

Mechanical tentacle

At the sight of this robot, many associations arise, of which only a small part can be voiced in a decent society. Therefore, let's dwell on the "earthworm."

Mechanical birds

And finally, we want to share with you a selection of videos not with robots, but with kinetic sculptures and animatrons. The authors of most of them were inspired by examples from wildlife. Fascinating spectacle.