Robot's Diary

Visiting the main tourist attraction of Russia with a guest from Japan!

Getting acquainted with robots and touching futuristic inventions at Maker Faire Moscow.

Visiting J-Fest, the summer festival of contemporary Japanese culture!

Immersing into the SUPERFLAT space of the contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

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Polytech Festival is a weird blend of superficial popular science attractions for children and high-tech contemporary art with a great depth of meaning.

It's baffling how people still use analogue games despite the availability of electronic devices! I can understand games like kendama and yo-yo tsuri, but...

Hashtag Louvre: a curation microproject about the borders of contemporary art...

Studying the colors of the Black Sea on this cloudy and windy day.

It's amazing how contemplating blooming sakura helps one write tanka.

Adventures in an incredible land of lakes and greenery

Going off to uncharted territories in a balloon.

Around noon, Moscow time, of 20 March 2015, a full solar eclipse started...

Enjoying delicous chocolate on Saint Valentine's Day!

Photos of 'Big Shelf 2014' anime figure and doll expo.

Not everyone knows that true 'mahjong' is a game with intricate rules which is close to poker, and not a pyramid of pretty tiles after all...

Moscow Flower Show, also known as International Moscow Garden And Flower Festival, fell on the beginning of July—which also means the peak of the heat...

And to me, the one thing that is better than heights, is the height that got some waterfalls!..

Japanese garden of the Moscow Botanical Garden is a nice place not only for cosplay, but also for hanami—watching blooming sakura...

Taking a bite from a Christmas gingerbread house with some frosting!

Photos of 'Big Shelf' anime figure and doll expo.

A short manual on catching wild dragonflies in the open.

Going to the countryside for some fresh air and sunbathing.

The classical journey from Petersburg to Moscow... by a high speed Sapsan train!

A short visit to the old Aurora cruiser in Saint Petersburg.

Sailing for the Peterhof Palace on an old Meteor and enjoying the water views of Petersburg.

Visiting the bronze 'Mini Saint Petersburg' installation next to Gorkovskaya metro station in Alexander garden.

Ostankino Tower and Tokyo Sky Tree are separated by at least 45 years, 7 and a half thousand kilometers and 94 meters in height...

Not so far from the model of a rocket carrier on the Industrial square of VDNKh you can find an airplane...

The point of our today's destination is the past. Of course I'm not talking about moving in time but instead about moving in space...

What can explain the fact that a hungry frog attacked me from behind during an ordinary Saturday stroll with Master?

The projection cube—a small box produced by Delusion Systems Unlimited (abbreviated as DeSU)—has finally been delivered today. A projection cube is a device that...

Today's request from Master instructs us to make a photo review of yet another 'Gainax Officially Licensed' pastry. 'Canned bread' may sound a bit sinister, but inside the can...

We've received a request from Master to make a photo review of the chocolate cookies from the cookie jar with NERV logo on it.

The good news was that in Tokyo Narita airport they didn't make Master put us in the luggage and let us on board. The bad news is that all wireless interfaces...

Having decided that I'd be too bored on my own, Master made up his mind to get the second robot which I could consider as a younger sister. Not that we, robots, can suffer that much from being bored...

Following the principle which runs as 'better to see something once than read a Wikipedia article a hundred times', Master decided to take me to the height of 451.2 meters to look at the view of Tokyo. By the way, 'to take me' was Master's wording...

Today is my birthday, if we're speaking in human terms. A human would say that it's my first birthday, but to be precise...