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The Legend of Voltron

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Who would have imagined that the Astro Boy, the Giant Robo TV series and Voltron would have led to Transfomer movies, and the Pacific Rim film ? Real life giant robots build amazing things in Japan. An 18-meter-high Gundam statue stands in Japan. So many animated series stemmed from Volton's lucky chance. So many fun, giant robots have entertained us, over the years.


Voltron's heir may operate in real life, soon.

July 2015


Last year MegaBot USA raised $1.8m (£1.17m) through a Kickstarter campaign to fund its giant robot vision.

Now the same company wants to create a giant humanoid robot tournament and last week challenged, the world's only other giant robot maker, Japan's Kuratas Mecha to join in.

The founder Kogoro Kurata accepted the challenge in a video this week. The battle is to commence some time next year.

Each robot suit will be piloted by a team and both are laden with guns that can shoot paint-filled cannonballs.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33310621
 
The Day the Earth Stood Still featured Gort the Giant Robot, before I was born.
hmmm...


This week - (The Late, Late Show reminded me)


A global robotic arms race "is virtually inevitable" unless a ban is imposed on autonomous weapons, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and 1,000 academics, researchers and public figures have warned.

In an open letter presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aries, the Future of Life Institute signatories caution that "starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control".

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/27/musk-hawking-ai-arms-race

At a UN conference in Geneva in April discussing the future of weaponry, including so-called “killer robots”, the UK opposed a ban on the development of autonomous weapons, despite calls from various pressure groups, including the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.


http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/27/musk-wozniak-hawking-ban-ai-autonomous-weapons


The enemy of your giant killer robot, is the friend of my giant killer robot ?
 
It was the 1950s. It was a wonder, that they were allowed to expose the public to something made with a bit of imagination and creativity, at all.
 
The surgical robots are not working out, all that well.
Love of the craft, is needed.

Metal and plastic based robots do not have love included.
Sex bots are available. But you need a human being if
you want a love bot.
 
Yes, they were "us." But with a mentality and attitude that existed 65 years, ago. Not their fault. It is difficult to drive a flivver into the future, while looking in the rear view mirror.
 
There is a suggestion, online, that it may have stood for Genetically-Organized Robotic Technology.
 
*digs deeper*

Maybe, someone working on the film crew knew something of the old languages.

"Old English gerd (Mercian), gierd (West Saxon) "rod, staff, stick; measure of length," from West Germanic *gazdijo, from Proto-Germanic *gazdjo- "stick, rod" (cognates: Old Saxon gerda, Old Frisian ierde, Dutch gard "rod;" Old High German garta, German gerte "switch, twig," Old Norse gaddr "spike, sting, nail"), from PIE root *ghazdh-o- "rod, staff, pole" (cognates: Latin hasta "shaft, staff"). The nautical yard-arm retains the original sense of "stick."

Gort, a stick to beat misbehaving alien cultures with, when they get out of line?
A stick to measure humanity's advancement, or backwardness?

I would not like the whole of humanity to be measured by the behaviors of some, on this planet.
 
I was a little older than the demographics for transformers but had much younger siblings that liked them. I saw it as a full length advert for the toy, not toys for an actual, valid creative project. I have to admit I never sat and watched it. Just gathered an impression as I passed the TV.
 
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