Wired: Will Wright’s Robot-Powered Battle Plan for Stupid Fun

I can’t help but to smile every time I hear the words Stupid Fun…I don’t think I’ll ever be able to take Will Wright seriously with his new project.  Wired Magazine caught up with the Sim/Spore Master himself to get a few words on his current work:

Wired.com: You started the club years ago. How’d it come together?

Wright: I met [co-founder] Mike Winter when we were both doing Robot Wars. It was in Berkeley in a 4,000-square-foot warehouse with machine tools and computers and electronics. It was creative exploration with no set goal. At that point, we didn’t see this as something we had to monetize.

We had these weird robotic inventions, and we’d study the way they interacted with each other. We made short films as interstitials for NBC. One time, we had this robot waiting tables in a restaurant. We said it was a Stanford experiment, and asked people if they wanted to sit in the robot section. We learned a lot from that.

Read the interview here