Communication Arts - Advertising Annual
Nov / Dev 2012 Communication Arts
"... To change their minds and get Chevy back into the conversation, we knew we couldn't just talk about car features and lease offers. So we partnered with rock starts, extreme athletes, robotic experts and tech masterminds to create a series of epic, 100 percent real stunts that captured the attention and imagination of our audience."
Communication Arts - Design Annual
Sept / Oc 2012 Communication Arts
"Coupled with the launch of the Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Creative Suite 6 is a landmark release for Adobe, and we wanted to express the brand in a compelling way that celebrated creativity and community. Collaborating with guest artists from around the worl, we asked them to experiment and push the boundaries of their own creativity to embody the endless possibilities of CS6. The art they created was just one piece of the narrative; equaly important were the stories behind the work. The artist's stories became the foundation for the entire CS6 experience."
SVRobo.org & Fall Network Event
9.12.12 Events
Silicon Valley Robotics celebrated becoming a 501(c)6 organization last night with full house network event and the launch of the new svrobo.org website. Last night’s event was hosted by robotics cinematography company, Bot&Dolly, at their studio and workshop on Mississippi St, San Francisco. More than 65 people attended the evening, which featured speakers from Bot&Dolly, Meka & Redwood Robotics, Bossa Nova Robotics, Otherlab, BeatBots and some short films from the Robot Film Festival.
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Bot & Dolly's IRIS Motion Control
September 2012 ICG Magazine
When actor/director Keanu Reeves was prepping for Man of Tai Chi, he “wanted to get what you get in CGI but have the flesh and blood there.” The proof of concept Reeves did with IRIS, from Bot&Dolly, “put the camera where it has never gone before,” he says.
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Google's Nexus Q Comes to Life
7.2.2012 Fast Company
When it came time to promote the Nexus Q, Google went big, commissioning San Francisco-based creative production shop Bot & Dolly to build a massive replica of the new media streaming device. Spanning 8 feet, the giant orb was unveiled via an interactive installation titled "Kinetisphere" at Google I/O 2012, the conference for developers.
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Visualized: Kinetisphere Takes Nexus Q into Another Dimension
6.28.2012 Engadget
What you see here is arguably be the coolest thing on display at Google I/O 2012 -- an 8-foot, 300-pound Nexus Q replica (complete with LED ring visualizer) mounted on a robot arm. This interactive installation called Kinetisphere was designed and fabricated by San Francisco-based Bot & Dolly and is controlled by three stations each consisting of -- wait for it -- a Nexus Q device and a Nexus 7 tablet. How meta is that?
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The World’s Most Advanced Robotic Motion Control System
6.4.2012 Electric TV
Making a spectacular public appearance at Cinegear 2012 @ Paramount Studios, Hollywood this giant high-tech robot wowed the crowd. Julia and Jeff with Bot & Dolly give us a quick overview. The State-of-the-Art Iris system showed off it’s amazing agility, precision and easy to use motion tools. These Iris robotic camera rigs will definitely open new creative frontiers for motion picture photography and more.
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Sonic's first Street Art. See the newest stunt.
4.19.2012 Lets Do This
Watch as respected street artist Jeff Soto teams up with Chevrolet and Bot & Dolly in an amazing world-first street-art collaboration. Check out what an artist and a paint-spraying robot car can create!
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Technological Art and Robotic Filmmakers in San Francisco
12.9.10 GOOD Magazine
GOOD's MacKenzie Fegan recently took a cross country tour to meet innovators in New York, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In San Francisco, she visited Josette Melchor, the executive director of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, which supports technology-based art installations in downtown San Francisco, and Jeff Linnel, of Bot and Dolly, which has repurposed industrial robots to film commercials and movies.
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Behind the Work: Remember Reach
8.24.10 Creativity Online
Planetary destruction, a robot monument and 54,439 points of light: AgencyTwoFifteen and AKQA on building the epic campaign for XBOX's much anticipated Halo Reach.
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Giant Robot Arm Powers Innovative Halo: Reach Light Sculpture
8.20.10 Wired
Microsoft will launch the Remember Reach website Monday morning as part of a viral campaign for the highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter Halo: Reach. When the site goes live, visitors can help construct a monument of light to honor the members of Noble Team, the main characters of Reach, who go missing in action after the fall of one of the game’s last human colonies.
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