SICO II robotOne of several blogs that I follow with Entrecard is a site called “Robot Armageddon”.  I really enjoy the content as it basically talks all about current developments in robotics and in a tongue-in-cheek manner describes how these advances will eventually lead to robots taking over and/or destroying humanity.  The site ranges from the factual and informative to the downright creepy, which is why I find it so fascinating.

Anyhow, I was honored to get to write a guest post the other day, and I wrote up a review of the disturbing Sico II robot that appeared in a number of films and TV shows in the past, most notably as Pauly’s robot in ‘Rocky IV’.  I gave a write up about this particular robot, noted some of its appearances, linked to the site that developed this machine, and discussed the implications of Rocky traveling to Soviet Russia to train in the mountains while a maniacal robot was left at home alone with his unprotected family.  It was fun to branch into something new and write about robotics, even if done in a silly way.