I eagerly await Disney’s newest animated feature called Wall-E , due for release on June 27. This is a tale of a maintenance robot left to fend for himself for 500 years after a mass human evacuation of Earth. And then the aliens come… what could possibly be more fun?

I have not seen the film yet, but I came across the Wall-E Virtual Robot-Builder site and had some fun. As can be expected with a multi-million dollar ad campaign, the site is feature rich with vocoded bleeps, bloops, and an airy soundtrack.

Your virtual robot is built in 4 stages:

• Body
• Mobility
• Color
• Sound

My robot still came out kind of boring, like a box with a ball on the bottom. No arms, no head. Choosing the voices is kind of fun. But the delay/load time between screens seemed long. The game was kind of boring too. All you do is collect chips while moving along a conveyor belt.

I am a big fun of build your own stuff on the Internet, but if the game and Wall-E’s interactive robot builder is any indication of the movie, I will be very displeased!

For more fun online virtual robot-builders, try these low-production value science-y sites are actually a lot more informative:

• Triangle Park Robotics Research
• Robot Constructor