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Deep Future · September 18 · 31 min

A Million Robot Fans — Mike Winter 5/5

Mike Winter starts in an Alaska winter with little snow-going robots, opens Wired, and calls Mark Thorpe about Robot Wars — then builds the promo video, wins middleweight with a flipper, and finds a whole tribe of ILM and Silicon Valley people who just wanted to make dangerous fun machines. We get into warehouse humanoids, googly eyes on combat robots, how people actually work with machines, and the Cannonball philosophy: never be bored, and always do stuff when you don’t know what you’re doing.

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Mike Winter starts in an Alaska winter with little snow-going robots, opens Wired, and calls Mark Thorpe about Robot Wars — then builds the promo video, wins middleweight with a flipper, and finds a whole tribe of ILM and Silicon Valley people who just wanted to make dangerous fun machines.

We get into warehouse humanoids, googly eyes on combat robots, how people actually work with machines, and the Cannonball philosophy: never be bored, and always do stuff when you don’t know what you’re doing.