RoboGames Video & Medal Count

Here comes a ca. 12min video of RoboGames with a slight (or not so slight) bias towards bartending robots and fierce robot battles in the ComBots arena:

Also I would like to point out the medal count: Team Roboexotica contributed to Austria ranking 5th, scoring one gold medal more than China!

	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
USA	33	34	27
Singapore	6	6	5
China	3	4	7
Taiwain	6	4	2
Austria	4	1	0

History re-invented

Paul Guinan at bigredhair has put together a wonderful "collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots" titled "Mechanical Marvels of the Nineteenth Century".
It features the stories of Boilerplate, supposedly the first combat robot, Steam Man, Electric Man and Automatic Man.

rog-a-matic over at robots.net says "Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Gene Roddenberry would be proud!"
But I think William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, authors of the classic steampunk-novel Difference Engine would be too!

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Update: There's photographic evidence some enthusiast resurrected Boilerplate and is renting it to elder ladies as a Gigolo-bot: