The secret life of MIT's Media Lab robots

While it may not have the production values -- and probably not the budget -- of the Pixar-produced Toy Story movies with which it shares a common theme, the stop-motion short "medialab@night" has nevertheless captured our imagination with its clever premise and lovable cast of characters. Just like Buzz, Woody, and that humorous little pig, the high-tech residents of MIT's Media Lab apparently also come to life when no one (except a film crew) is watching, with sensor shoes, pushpin computers, and various other gadgets roaming the halls and causing a bit of mischief. This particular film catches them hacking into the brain of our favorite little Gremlin-esque robot, Leonardo (no relation to director Leonardo Bonanni -- we think), and rewiring him to edit Wikipedia on -- what else -- an OLPC. Check out the full flick after the break, and just remember this warning the next time your Robosapiens and Pleos try using a Dremel to drill into your brain while you sleep...

[Via Waziwazi]

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[Joshua @ Aug 20th 2007 4:14PM]

Dear lord the Quizno's creature grew a whole body. Thanks for making sure I sleep like crap tonight!

[injate @ Aug 20th 2007 4:14PM]

It's eating my soul

[Robots, Take Over Please @ Aug 20th 2007 4:15PM]

Wow, that first photo is really creepy. Looks like a Chucky-Ewok hybrid killer.

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ Aug 20th 2007 4:26PM]

It's obvious in the first picture that these guys are fans of Pedobear.

[kuzu-b @ Aug 20th 2007 4:39PM]

I wish Endgaget used smiley's so i could face_plain you guys right now for that image.

[Xzavier @ Aug 20th 2007 4:40PM]

Ya-know -- I like those automated robots and all... I like stop motion video... I like the Muppets... I can dig what Jim Henson did for us... I love Farscape, I think it's AWESOME! However... that is one scary ass picture! Peps won't even post in here! Come on Evan, bro you can do better than that!

[adaminc @ Aug 20th 2007 4:40PM]

That first picture looks like a mutant Mogwai, is that you Gizmo?

[Bloobie @ Aug 20th 2007 6:23PM]

Perhaps this is the missing 4th rule of Mogwai caretaking.. "never let them drink espresso"

[Zzephyr @ Aug 20th 2007 5:08PM]

Yeesh! I think I soiled my dockers.

[therpham @ Aug 20th 2007 5:09PM]

It's going to devour my soul!

[Zach @ Aug 20th 2007 5:14PM]

Last time I was this creeped out I kept hearing "it puts the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again" over and over.

[Samsam @ Aug 20th 2007 5:56PM]

Hahahah I am so creeped out by that picture yet so compelled to continue looking at it........

[Xzavier @ Aug 20th 2007 6:09PM]

Chewbacca on CRACK!

[Matt @ Aug 20th 2007 10:59PM]

It's some sort of Furby demon.

[kyle allen @ Aug 21st 2007 2:15AM]

what are you talking about? fubys ARE deamons!

[attang @ Aug 25th 2007 11:24AM]

越来越看不懂写的是什么，索性帮你指出点文字BUG：“迫使他用 OLPC 到 Wikipedia 馔（篡）改数据”？