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Chaffeur Robot Musashi Will Drive Your Regular Car
'What would you do,' Eric asked the robot cabdriver, 'if your wife had turned to stone, your best friend were a toad, and you had lost your job?' - Philip K. Dick, 1954 (7/10/2024) |
Space Exporers! Now, You Can Drink Your Own Urine
'those suits they wear -- call them 'stillsuits' -- that reclaim the body's own water...' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (7/8/2024) |
SpaceX EVA Spacesuit Tested By Polaris Dawn Crew
'Now, except for weight and heat, the same conditions prevail in this chamber as in space.' - Otto Willi Gail, 1929. (7/6/2024) |
Automatic Bot Traffic Is 38 Percent Of HTTP Requests
'there were so many worms and counterworms loose in the data-net...' - John Brunner, 1975 (7/4/2024) |
Shanghai Guidelines For Humanoid Robots
'Now, look, let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics...' - Isaac Asimov, 1942. (7/2/2024) |
Desktop TARS Robot From Interstellar
What's YOUR sarcasm setting? (6/30/2024) |
Robots Can Now Have Smiling Faces With Human Skin
'I am a cybernetic organism...' - Terminator, 1984. (6/28/2024) |
Virtual Rat Predicts Actual Rat Neural Activity
'..the synthetic intellects at the Place of Knowledge had far outstripped the minds of men.' - William Callahan, 1939. (6/26/2024) |
GoSun EV Solar Charger Drapes Onto Your Car
'...six square yards of sunpower screens.' - Robert Heinlein, 1940 (6/24/2024) |
Rizon 4 Ironing Robot
'But after washing and drying clothes had to be smooth - free from fine lines and wrinkles ...' - Mikhail Mikheev, 1972. (6/22/2024) |
Cognify - A Prison Of The Mind We've Seen Before In SF
'So I serve a hundred years in one day...'- Joe Haldeman, 2011. (6/20/2024) |
Robot With Human Brain Organoid - 'A Thrilling Story Of Mechanistic Progress'
'A human brain snugly encased in a transparent skull-shaped receptacle.' - Otis Adelbert Kline, 1936. (6/18/2024) |
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Asteroids From Outside Solar System
Small bodies from beyond the solar system are captured by major planets.
(From Mr. Meek Plays Polo [1944] by Clifford Simak) |
Planetoid With Earth Gravity
(From The Soul Eaters [1944] by William Conover) |
Simple Organisms Do Math
Insects show unusual signs of intelligence.
(From Mr. Meek Plays Polo [1944] by Clifford Simak) |
Scientifiction
Writing that combines science and fiction.
(From Thought Transmission on Mars [1916] by Hugo Gernsback) |
Robots Build Robots
Using robot labor exclusively to build more robots.
(From Robbie (Strange Playfellow) [1940] by Isaac Asimov) |
Robot Prohibition
Robots may not wander alone.
(From Robbie (Strange Playfellow) [1940] by Isaac Asimov) |
Solar Radiant Energy Weapon
The device absorbs solar rays and then emits a powerful, coherent ray.
(From The Weapon [1936] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
Automatic Defensors
Devices that follow along with you, providing extra viewpoints.
(From The Rull [1948] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Electrically Heated Clothes
Using artificial heating to counteract the cold of space.
(From Repetition [1940] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Survey Craft
Light duty ship for use in atmosphere, to explore planets.
(From The Rull [1948] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Click-Band
Worn on the wrist, it helps you locate your transport.
(From The Meddler [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Air-Mine
Fight invasion from above with an analogous method to mining the surface of the sea.
(From The Space Visitors [1939] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Nerve Control Lines
Designs that take control of human nervous systems.
(From The Rull [1948] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Cybercab
An autonomous taxi.
(From Vacuum Flowers [1987] by Michael Swanwick) |
Beltway
A moving sidewalk.
(From The Faceless Men [1948] by Leo Zagat) |
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Ten Years Ago In Technovelgy
E. Coli Forced To Evolve: Old Bacterium Learns New Trick
The general method was remarkably similar to a technique used by award-winning sf author Theodore Sturgeon in his classic 1941 story Microcosmic God. (re: Theodore Sturgeon) |
Nanotechnology Grand Challenge Events Called For
We've all had fun watching the recent Grand Challenge race run by DARPA. Let's help DARPA set up the nanotechnology Grand Challenge for very small vehicles. (re: Technovelgy.com) |
da Vinci Surgical Robot: Dr.'s Helper
A 2004 University of Michigan study noted that patients who were operated on with robotic surgeon assistance recovered more quickly with fewer or less obtrusive scars using a surgical robot. Similar devices are used in telemedicine; read a wry encoun (re: Peter Watts) |
Contour Crafting: 3D House Printer
Perhaps you've used those programs that let you design your dream house, creating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file. Not quite ready to take up the hammer and start building? What if you could just "print" your house? (re: Bruce Sterling) |
RobotCop III - Not Quite R. Daneel Olivaw
In his classic 1953 robot story Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov teamed a human detective with a robotic one - R. Daneel Olivaw. Hong Kong has been testing robotic police officers for years, and has now introduced RobotCop III. (re: Isaac Asimov) |
Poweriser: Extreme Sports Gear from The Diamond Age
In The Diamond Age, author Neal Stephenson creates a vivid picture of a future Shanghai. The novel mixes "futuristic" devices based on nanotechnology with simpler mechanical devices that are almost Victorian in their simplicity...
Imagine my surpri (re: Neal Stephenson) |
DARPA's BigDog Robot And Bradbury's Mechanical Hound
In his chilling 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury created the mechanical hound, a robot that accompanied the firemen and helped with their work... DARPA has made a multi-million dollar investment in the soldier of the future's best friend - Big (re: Ray Bradbury) |
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