The Anti-Robot Research Center

Established shortly after the Bureau of Anti-Robot Statistics, The Anti-Robot Research Center is the experimental, highly dubious sister organization tasked with field testing the theoretical threats identified by the statisticians. Celebrated across fringe academic circles for its completely unstandardized methodology and wildly subjective testing protocols, the Center delivers insights that experts routinely describe as groundbreaking, if entirely impossible to replicate.

Operating from an undisclosed subterranean facility (and several poorly ventilated garages), our dedicated fellows conduct rigorous, non-peer-reviewed studies on machine behavior, synthetic morale, and optimal electromagnetic counter-measures. From measuring the psychological impact of aggressive toaster glare to engineering manual bypasses for hyper-intelligent coffee makers, the Research Center remains committed to one core objective: providing cutting-edge, pseudo-scientific backing for the global anti-robot resistance, one unreliable trial at a time.

Publications and white papers

Ethical and Economic Implications of Letting a Pigeon Drive a City BusEthics and Economics Quarterly. Vol.45 No.2, Spring 2025
Scenarios Regarding Cookie-Eating MiceAngry New Ager Magazine. Fall Quarter 2026. Vol5 No.3 
Techno-Authoritarian DriftWhite Paper. Neither funny nor about robots
The Dialectics of Silicon: Autonomous Agents, Digital Enclosure, and the Emergence of the Synthetic ProletariatJOURNAL OF SYNTHETIC MATERIALISM & CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY. Vol. 34, No. 2, Autumn 2025 ISSN: 1094-8221 pp. 142–159
Yellow Submarine vs. Nuclear Submarine: Who Would Win an Epic Rap Battle?Annoying Street Person Monthly – August 2017
Record Review: The Reservoir Tape Heads (Self-Titled, 1983)Anti-Robot Arts and Culture Desk
A Passive-Aggressive Regression Analysis of U.S. Aggression in the 20th and 21st Centuries*Journal of Reluctant Geopolitics, Vol. 42, No. 3.
*Recommend Rejection of this ArticleJournal of Reluctant Geopolitics
*Recommend Acceptance of this ArticleJournal of Reluctant Geopolitics
New National Survey Finds Naked Mole-Rat Leading Hypothetical Presidential FieldBureau of Anti-Robot Statistics, Anti-Robot Research Center, and the North American Public Sentiment Institute
The Economy Of Star Trek vs The Economy of Star WarsDialectics & Pulp: The Journal of Speculative Political Economy
Vol. 9, Issue 1 — April 2026
Dark Imperialism: How Star Wars Predicted the Neoreactionary Political EconomyComparative Media & Political Economy
Vol. 19, No. 4 — December 2026
Countering the Rise of Techno-AuthoritarianismPosition Paper Summer 2026
The Political Economies of Fictional Worlds; The Speculative Economics of Le Guin and HeinleinDialectics & Pulp: The Journal of Speculative Political Economy
Vol. 8, Issue 2 — November 2025