{"id":398,"date":"2009-08-20T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T13:57:24","slug":"robot-assemblage-sculptures-from-lipson-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/20\/robot-assemblage-sculptures-from-lipson-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot assemblage sculptures from Lipson Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsonrobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/lipson_robot.jpg\" alt=\"Robot Sculpture from Lipson Robotics\" width=\"211\" height=\"425\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I&#8217;m still stapled to my desk, but cool things keep flying out of my monitor at me even though I&#8217;m doing my best to ignore them. I&#8217;m <em>just that dedicated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But I&#8217;m going to try to catch up a bit before the cool things pile up and spill into my coffee cup. So here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Retropolis Transit Authority<\/em> customer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhammellgallery.com\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Hammell<\/a> sends me this link to some wonderful retro robots built out of found objects from thrift stores and, for all I know, time traveling midden heaps &#8211; they&#8217;re by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsonrobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lipson Robotics<\/a>, and I envy Tim because he&#8217;s the happy owner of one of them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The sculptures are assembled completely with nuts and bolts, which seem so much more fitting than adhesives. It&#8217;s as though they&#8217;re who they are, through and through, and I like that about them. Come to think of it, I like that about <em>anybody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The robots are up to 30 inches tall, and weigh up to 20 pounds.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Lipson Robotics is the brainchild of an animation director and producer with years of experience on stuff you&#8217;ve probably seen. But I prefer to think that his true calling is scavenging for robot parts, and putting them together. It&#8217;s <em>destiny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]robot, robotics, lipson robotics, art, sculpture, assemblage, found objects[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still stapled to my desk, but cool things keep flying out of my monitor at me even though I&#8217;m doing my best to ignore them. I&#8217;m just that dedicated. But I&#8217;m going to try to catch up a bit before the cool things pile up and spill into my coffee cup. So here&#8217;s one: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}