Worth1000's robot animal Photoshop contest gives new meaning to "iron horse".
The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web. Artists took pictures of real animals and filled them with images of gears, wires, and electronic gizmos. The results look pretty amazing. There are cybernetic reptiles, android mammals, and even a robot chicken. Take a good look at some of these cool robot-animal pics below; we’ve got tons and there are many more on the Worth1000 website.
There’s still a big gap between the creativity of artificial intelligence and the creativity of humanity. We’re way out ahead for now. Looking at these pics, however, I wonder how long it will take until a computer is savvy enough to use Photoshop on its own. Pattern recognition is difficult for AI (another area where we’re still in the lead) but once a computer could tell that a bunch of wires has the same basic shape as a giraffe’s neck…well, I think the artwork might make itself. Which is very cool.
Seth Green, eat your heart out
Scientists really are making cyborg beetles and robotic hummingbirds, why not a android anaconda or a missile-toting toad? Picking which of these concepts might actually make it from Photoshop to the engineering bench isn’t easy. Besides looking good, these pics demonstrate how our concepts of the future are usually just mash-ups of the things around us today. Accelerating technologies mess with our abilities to accurately predict what is possible. You can look at this contest and just see a bunch of crazy science fiction animals that look sweet. Me, I see ideas that someone, someday, is going to want to make a reality. If case that does happen, I call dibs on the rhino-tank.
Do rhinos really need a turret to cause damage?
Cyborg insects are being developed. Battle toads...not so much.
[all images hosted on Worth1000.com]
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Comments
Nice digital edits! I particularly like the cyborg horse. Wish I had one!
Nice digital edits! I particularly like the cyborg horse. Wish I had one!
Nice digital edits! I particularly like the cyborg horse. Wish I had one!
Wow. Those are amazing!! A great way to waste time during science
Wow. Those are amazing!! A great way to waste time during science
Wow. Those are amazing!! A great way to waste time during science
Very cool ideas and creative art. Excellent if you ask me. Great job to all the artists!
Very cool ideas and creative art. Excellent if you ask me. Great job to all the artists!
Very cool ideas and creative art. Excellent if you ask me. Great job to all the artists!
That cat is the best one – looks the most realistic.
That cat is the best one – looks the most realistic.
That cat is the best one – looks the most realistic.
pretty cool
pretty cool
pretty cool
Simply awesome happened. I believe even a little bit that way it is!
Simply awesome happened. I believe even a little bit that way it is!
Simply awesome happened. I believe even a little bit that way it is!
Where’s the Electric Sheep?
Where’s the Electric Sheep?
Where’s the Electric Sheep?
That kids reaction always freaks me out.
That kids reaction always freaks me out.
A really cool film could be made here, sort of Jumanji Meets Terminator
A really cool film could be made here, sort of Jumanji Meets Terminator
These are great images. I really wish that I could do something even close to this. Outstanding.
very cool
Who ever said this looks stupid has no taste no innovation. He must be one boring person and jerks of all day at home lol.
awesome!
CREATIVITY – I love it. . . .
In The Singularity is Near, the author predicts we will eventually be able to alter our bodies, at which time robotics will be very much more advanced; thinking of this and looking at the pictures scares me a bit about what appearances some creative types at such a time might come up with
Very Kewl… I love Photoshop! ;O)
These are really fun and creative. I especially like the frog with the back-mounted missile launcher.
These are really fun and creative. I especially like the frog with the back-mounted missile launcher.
These are really fun and creative. I especially like the frog with the back-mounted missile launcher.
These are really fun and creative. I especially like the frog with the back-mounted missile launcher.
lol @ robot chicken.. seth greens can't top that one.
Pretty dumb if you ask me
love the vw bug ^^
He's a jerk. Great concept and Great effort.
I don't know, all these pictures look pretty stupid to me.
Wow, thaqt is truly incredible dude.
Jess
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So this shitty site just stole all the content from Worth1000 and posted it here? That’s fucking shameless, man.