Associated Content: “‘World War Robot’ Acquired by Jerry Bruckheimer.” “Jerry Bruckheimer, the prolific producer of such films as Armageddon, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and National Treasure, and TV shows like CSI, has acquired the rights to a graphic novel entitled World War Robot. World War Robot is the story of a war between humans and robots that take place on the Earth, on the Moon, and on Mars. As such it seems to be the perfect over the top epic for Jerry Bruckheimer, the master of that genre, to bring to the big screen.”

Wired: “Robot Band Plays Music, Obsesses About Its Online Followers.” “Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it — and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of friends it has on Facebook and how many fans follow it on MySpace. The difference is that it is a handcrafted musical robot and one whose emotion meter swings from delirium to desolation based on its online popularity at any given moment.”

Examiner: “Good-Guy Robot Helps With Suspicious Backpack Outside Oprah’s Studio.” “… a bomb-defusing robot was sent in to examine, and possibly demolish the device. I have no doubt that robots everywhere had feelings on the matter.”