Interesting facts and statistics. And if you squint at it just right, you can almost see the future that science fiction has foretold for the last sixty years or so, right around the corner.
(Via Lifehacker)
EDIT, 2013-05-01: The first sentence above used to link to <http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/wild-world-robots/>, but I was asked today by someone from onlineschools.org to remove it. I would have left it there anyway (I don’t take kindly to censorship in any form), but they’ve deleted the page it used to link to as well, so there’s little point.
You haven’t seen a wild robot until you’ve seen Battle Bots or Robot Wars! Both were good but I liked Battle Bots better, it was more exciting I thought.
I’ve heard of them, and seen a few clips, but they’re really just the major league sports of the robot world — interesting, but there’s a lot more to it than that, and that other stuff can be even more fascinating.