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Tiny Flying Robot Weighs Just One Gram
'Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays.' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (3/7/2025) |
Some Ringworld Configurations Are Stable
'The Ringworld had no horizon. There was no line where the land curved away from the sky.' (3/5/2025) |
TRANSFORM Dynamic Furniture Concept Becomes What You Need
'An adjustment panel outside the door would cause it to extrude various appurtenances in memory plastic...' - Larry Niven (1969). (3/3/2025) |
Harvard Metamaterials Change Structure Instantly
'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.' - Samuel R. Delany (3/1/2025) |
SnapBot Robots - You Choose Their Legs And They Choose Their Gaits
It's not really polite to tear the limbs off robots. (2/27/2025) |
Dino From Magical Toys An AI Companion To Children
'...the imaginary companions discovered by needful children.' - Anne McCaffrey, 1990. (2/25/2025) |
Humanoid Robots Building Humanoid Robots
''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?'' - Isaac Asimov (1940) (2/23/2025) |
Darpa 'Defiant' Unmanned Autonomous Ship
There was no wheel, and no steersman!' - Miles J. Breuer, 1930. (2/21/2025) |
What's The Best Way To Ship And Unpack Humanoid Robots?
'I opened the oblong box, where lay the automatons side by side...' - Elizabeth Bellamy, 1899. (2/19/2025) |
DNA Printed Book By Isaac Asimov Now Available
'They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record!' - Barbara Hambly, 1982. (2/17/2025) |
AI Computer Chip Designs Passeth Human Understanding
'It seems that at one time computers were designed directly by human beings.' - Isaac Asimov, 1958. (2/15/2025) |
Space Traffic Management (STM) Needed Now
'...the spot was a lonely one in an uncharted region, far from the normal lanes of space traffic.' - Arthur William Bernal (1935) (2/13/2025) |
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Robotrix
A robot, female in appearance.
(From Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said [1974] by Philip K. Dick) |
Television 'Phone
A video call.
(From The Sword and the Atopen [1930] by Taylor H. Greenfield) |
Up-and-Down Orientation
Designed and constructed as if gravity were a factor.
(From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
Artificial Sun
Use of a single large artifact to provide sunlight to a city or a world.
(From The Bride of Osirus [1927] by Otis Adelbert Kline) |
Reflected Artificial Sun
Sending light to another planet via mirror.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Air-Dock
A docking mechanism that seems to catch a descending space-ship in mid-air.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Ten Million Mile Searchlight
You need to see where you're going.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Multigyros
Allows known stable movement in four dimensions, thus making space travel possible.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Jetta Tube
Spray causes immediately a trance-like state where a person’s body becomes rigid.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Prison Planet (Penal Settlement)
A prison so far from Earth.
(From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
Chronanalyzer
Isolate specific movements for analysis.
(From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
Maintenance Drone (Holon)
A semi-autonomous flying device used to perform repairs.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
Tin Foil Hat (Tin Pulpit)
A metal device that protects the user from unwanted telepathic intrusions.
(From The Tissue-Culture King [1927] by Julian Huxley) |
Autotrawler Autonomous Fishing Factory Ship
An entirely autonomous vessel with imprisoned labor that scrapes the sea for protein and off-loads it to other ships.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
AI Control Portal
A special window into an artificial intelligence, to allow an operator to take control of it if necessary.
(From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
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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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