#robits....

[h0dgep0dgee]

so im starting to listen to hatsune miku and now i really want to draw her and the spg bots at some point

[cyber-skeletons]

[colealexart]

"I'm alive because they made me alive."

[casside-sionnach]

[quilldesignz]

๑ ✌️ • ❤️ • 🥔 ๑

[feelinprettyblue02]

lil oc named robit :3 she likes collecting cool weapons and artifacts :3

[dashdotshows]

[start id: a black and white drawing cropped from p.29 of the Usborne Guide to Computer and Video Games (1982). The image shows a chessboard with lights and mechanical arm built in.

Image caption reads: "The robot arm on this chess-board makes all the computer's moves, and removes your pieces when the computer captures them. If the computer loses the game, it flings its arm about, flashes its lights and shrieks." end id.]

I assumed this emotionally dysregulated chess robot was just a 1980s fever dream, but apparently it exists, and glories in the name of "The Novag Robot Adversary":

Quoth the gorgeously Web 1.0 (but still updating in 2023?!) Chess Computer UK:

The Novag Robot Adversary is the most iconic of chess computers. There are several reasons. Firstly, for a product of 1982, its startling futuristic appearance. Secondly the robot arm which in terms of robotic character, comparative speed and range of movement is extraordinary for a consumer product. Thirdly the variety of functions - including autoplay, automatic setting up of the pieces for a new game, trace and review, best move, sound, lights, printer support, and not forgetting the tantrums produced by the ‘emotions’ button which involve waving of the arm, flashing lights and noisy sound. These functions all contribute towards a very impressive and entertaining machine, which was outstanding when it was first sold, and has not been bettered since.

That page also has videos of the machine in action, including this heart-rending footage of it losing its shit:

I am inordinately happy to learn about this.

[triaelf9]

Guess who I got to drawwwww ^__-

And yes, I do have a full design for under the cloak of course XD

Man, I've come so far in the last 10 years with my art. Going from "ah, i suck at mechanical characters and monsters and creatures, I'm only good at ppl" to drawing CR's hottest robot XD

[salmonfry4]

im so sleeepy get me in winter break now!!!

[dragonpyre]

Sonic was THIRTEEN in the first movie??????

[piebank]

hometeam x

[ghostboy-art]

them <3

hehe

[bonehearts]

appointment with dr. lotty 💙 🧡

[tatters-the-bat]

GIR upon ye

[the9mm]

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[likesplatterpaint]

Firefox, but make it Wet