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Have you ever wondered why the Japanese seem so fond of Robots? Japan has an inverse problem with population from China, their birthrate has declined and they now face an aging population. One idea being pursured is 'service robots' to help with home care of the aging as they are facing a shortage o...

That scene was re-used from a previous episode of Astro vs Atlas inside of Atlas's castle.
Oh, the spaceship in the Mars episode (a few episodes before this one), had the ship Astro was on looking quite a bit like the one going to Jupitor in "2001".

Hint for Linux geeks. Use youtube-dl to download '.flv' file and then mplayer to grab a frame. In mplayer 'p' pauses, '.' steps by single frame, 's' grabs frame to file.

I saw a live video feed last year (well, almost live any way, it was like watching paint dry most of the time) from a Tokyo shopping mall where they were having this robot marathon for walking robots. Most of them were only a foot or two tall and kept falling over or walking out of the defined cours...

The only thing is if any robot company had the nerve to actually come out with a robot with a face looking like Atom, would they land in court for copyright infringment? Probably not if it was up to Tezuka productions, but now that Sony has their hands in this who knows? (Don't get me going on Sony,...

Astro is close enough to Atom that Frederik Schodt left it that way when he did the translation of the Manga for Dark Horse. Listen to the Anime of the 1980's Astroboy recently uploaded to Youtube. This is undubbed with subtitles and (hopefully) has the original Japanese sound track (I think the sub...

Has anybody seen "Simon" http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/simon-the-robot-gets-upgraded-with-voice-and-face-recognition-s/ When I saw this one's face the first thing that came to my mind was to yank that stupid looking football helmet off his head and replace it with Astro's hair-doo. Too bad the ...

And there you have it...... Hope all you New Yorkers and Ex-New Yorkers felt at home. Writing it made me homesick. I have a followup in mind. Think of Simon as Indiana Jones and Atom as Short Round. Atom still has powers he hasn't yet discovered. Thanks to Clive Cussler, Emit Brown, Harrison Ford, a...

Chapter 18. Finis? Adam was released from the hospital by the end of the week. His strength had returned and all he talked about was his new 'brother'. Atom and Adam shared the same bedroom. Robots don't need to sleep, but Atom would sit himself down in a chair after Adam had fallen asleep and go i...