![The 2012 Botskers [image courtesy Robot Film Festival]](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/robot5.jpeg "The 2012 Botskers [image courtesy Robot Film Festival]")
Earlier this month, another huge crowd of roboticists, artists, and filmakers converged on Manhattan for the second annual Robot Film Festival, a daylong celebration of robots on film. Founded by Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot and Carnegie Mellon University and co-organized by Marek Michalowski of Beatbots, the festival’s goal is “to highlight innovation, explore frontiers before technically feasible and investigate the impact of humanity and machinery interrelations.”
The festival — themed “Are Robots Man’s Best Friend?” this year — kicked off with a screening of Sundance Film Festival winner Robot and Frank, due to hit U.S. theaters in August.
Check out selected winners of the 2012 “Botskers” after the jump…
