Environmental Graffiti

Kenji Yanobe’s Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic World

The future looks both bleak and bright according to Kenji Yanobe. The artist's visions come to life with a huge, fire-breathing robot Torayan, colourful orange-clad men, children in a very different kind of kindergarten class and many more thought-provoking works. Drawing inspiration from Japanese manga and science fiction, Yanobe offers glimpses into a ruined world that uses the best that human technology can offer to make sense of it all.

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Unmanned Robot Drone Spying on California Smog

Not the actual plane, but similar. Image from Jasmic We all know that smog is a problem in Southern California. Los Angeles is one of the worst places on earth for it. However, the problems posed by smog and the myriad of other bits of junk that we [...]

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Monkey Controls Robot Using Only its Mind

If you’ve ever feared that Planet of the Apes could become a reality, it’s time to freak out. An image from a previous monkey/robot connection experiment Recently, neuroscientists at Duke University announced that a monkey in North Carolina had managed to make a robot all the way in Japan [...]

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