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…

Best Picture: TOUCHY, a Human Camera, by Eric Siu

Best Human-Robot Interaction: Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan, by Matt Rutherford, Roc Noir, Google

Best Robot Actor: Seraph, by Pilobolus, MIT Distributed Robotics Lab

Innovative Technology: Swarmanoid, the Movie by Mauro Birattari, Rehan O’Grady, Marco Dorigo

And see the full list of winners here.

(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)