These pictures of rather odd robots are from Ain't It Cool News. The pic(s) are reported to have been taken from the Chicago set for Steven Spielburg's next film "Real Steel" with Hugh Jackman. the above robot is called "Bruiser". But the name is likely a placeholder and of course CGI will add some life to the prop.
For reasons I can't nail down, that robot makes me think "Frankenstein's monster". This in turns makes me think that maybe a plot element is an attempt by humans to re-create robotic technology but that is just speculation on my part.
The movie is comes out November 18th, 2011 and "tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, human boxing has been outlawed, replaced with sports combat between human-trained 2000-pound heavy steel robots."
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