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There are a bunch of these competitions around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat (It looks like

by schoen 6y ago

There are a bunch of these competitions around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat (It looks like RoboMaster is bigger in terms of the number of participants and spectators.)

DonHopkins 6y ago
Then there's the Godfather of Robot Combat, Mark Pauline, founder of Survival Research Laboratories. http://www.srl.org/ http://www.srl.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline >Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform. https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT54&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline+mona+lisa&source=bl&ots=PvJyNDocEZ&sig=ACfU3U2OGeqLUsEzSTgiqMqUaDrEyt4cxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy5oOjuIfqAhVZQjABHXRmBu0Q6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=character%20in%20cyberpunk%20novel%20based%20on%20Mark%20Pauline%20mona%20lisa&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT... >"With the character of outlaw underground robot maker Slick Henry, William Gibson has immortalized artist Mark Pauline in the novel MONA LISA OVERDRIVE." -Thinking Like a Machine: An Artists Journey into Robotics https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline&source=bl&ots=ptf5pjrnv4&sig=ACfU3U0po954S5W3s3pq_YQzV8WAskkqkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivipu8t4fqAhVVSzABHa1-BUAQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Pauline&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=P... >"Pauline builds engines of destruction. He is the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories, a loosely knit organization which, since 1979, has been perfecting a heavy metal theater of cruelty-scary, stupefyingly loud events in which remote-controlled weaponry, computer-directed robots, and reanimated roadkill do battle in the murk of smoke, flames, and greasy fumes." -Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ >Survival Research Laboratories Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival, LA, California, Dec 22, 2012. This is the public YouTube debut of this documentary, four years in the making. It chronicles the planning, pre-production, and performance of a full Survival Research Labs show, captured by nineteen cameras. https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos >(lots more disturbing content in SRL's video list)

by schoen 6y ago

DonHopkins 6y ago

Then there's the Godfather of Robot Combat, Mark Pauline, founder of Survival Research Laboratories. http://www.srl.org/ http://www.srl.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline >Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform. https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT54&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline+mona+lisa&source=bl&ots=PvJyNDocEZ&sig=ACfU3U2OGeqLUsEzSTgiqMqUaDrEyt4cxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy5oOjuIfqAhVZQjABHXRmBu0Q6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=character%20in%20cyberpunk%20novel%20based%20on%20Mark%20Pauline%20mona%20lisa&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT... >"With the character of outlaw underground robot maker Slick Henry, William Gibson has immortalized artist Mark Pauline in the novel MONA LISA OVERDRIVE." -Thinking Like a Machine: An Artists Journey into Robotics https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline&source=bl&ots=ptf5pjrnv4&sig=ACfU3U0po954S5W3s3pq_YQzV8WAskkqkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivipu8t4fqAhVVSzABHa1-BUAQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Pauline&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=P... >"Pauline builds engines of destruction. He is the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories, a loosely knit organization which, since 1979, has been perfecting a heavy metal theater of cruelty-scary, stupefyingly loud events in which remote-controlled weaponry, computer-directed robots, and reanimated roadkill do battle in the murk of smoke, flames, and greasy fumes." -Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ >Survival Research Laboratories Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival, LA, California, Dec 22, 2012. This is the public YouTube debut of this documentary, four years in the making. It chronicles the planning, pre-production, and performance of a full Survival Research Labs show, captured by nineteen cameras. https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos >(lots more disturbing content in SRL's video list)