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Robotic Barber Programmed With a Number of Styles
'He found a barber shop which, he thought, would be good for an idle hour.' - Don Wilcox, 1939. (5/17/2025) |
Humanoid Boxing Robot KO's Opponent - It's A Knockout!
'Thirty rounds of fighting is tough work. Even for machines.' - Aldo Giunta, 1957 (5/15/2025) |
Caterpillar Electric Mining Loader Not Yet Ready For Moon
'...the excavations were already in progress, for he saw gray slopes of rubble.' Jack Williamson, 1939. (5/13/2025) |
Centipede Robots Down On The Farm
'...the walking mills of Puffy Products began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.' - Fritz Leiber, 1958. (5/11/2025) |
Anthropic's Claude AI Creates Legal Citation From Whole Cloth
'Here is a Clerk that would work incessantly, and neither eat, sleep, want payment, or grumble.' - Punch, 1844. (5/11/2025) |
Students Vie For Lunar Regolith Mining Robot Prize
'About time you got here,' the astronaut said. - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (5/9/2025) |
'They Erased My Memory' Says Ariana Grande
'...using a neutralizing electronic impulse.' - Edmond Hamilton, 1948. (5/7/2025) |
Solitary Black Hole Wanders In Space
'...the Hole is something like a vortex or a whirlpool?' - Frank K. Kelly, 1935. (5/5/2025) |
Spaceplane From Virgin Atlantic
'ZARNAK, YOU'RE TO COMMAND A SCOUTING EXPEDITION --- FIND OUT WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!' (5/3/2025) |
DARPA Wants 'Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures'
'These are your rudimentary seed packages... Some will combine in place to form more complicated structures.' - Greg Bear, 2015 (5/1/2025) |
Robot Hand Creeps Along, Separate From It's Owner
'The crawling... object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...' - Philip K. Dick, 1955. (4/30/2025) |
Taikonauts Exercise In China's Tiangong Space Station
'Joe got out the gravity-simulator harnesses...' - Murray Leinster, 1953. (4/28/2025) |
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Language Net
Endows the user with the ability to understand any language.
(From The Sorceror Pharesm [1966] by Gerald Vance) |
Liquid Metal Telescope (Solid)
A large LMT made solid.
(From The Infinite Vision [1926] by Charles C. Winn) |
Boxing Robot
Robots that fight in exhibitions, in the ring, for spectators.
(From Steel [1956] by Richard Matheson) |
Electric-Powered Caterpillar Shovels
Mining equipment powered by electricity.
(From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
Ideophore
A device that quickly and (almost?) painlessly transfers knowledge from one brain to another.
(From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
Spaceplane
A craft able to land on Earth and take off directly for space.
(From Zarnak [1937] by Max Plaisted) |
Automaton Birds
Mechanical fowl sing sweetly.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
Automaton Lawyer's Clerk
An autonomous clerk to lawyers.
(From The Lawyer's Clerk Question Settled [1844] by Staff of Punch) |
Automaton Judge
An entirely artificial, mechanical judge for the courtroom.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
Lawyer Robot
An autonomous, robotic lawyer.
(From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
Beer Robot
A robot prepared and filled with draft beer.
(From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
Electrofriend (Artificial Friend)
A tiny electric friend, which nestles in your ear, and provides advice and information.
(From Automatthew's Friend [1972] by Stanislaw Lem) |
Bobble (Confinement Sphere)
A sphere of force that entirely isolates the interior from the rest of the universe.
(From The Peace War [1984] by Vernor Vinge) |
Boarding Space-Line
A method for two ships to connect at a distance, allowing a passenger to move safely between ships.
(From Tyrann [1951] by Isaac Asimov) |
Absolute Black
A material which, when covering an object, will reflect no light whatsoever.
(From The Shadow and the Flash [1903] by Jack London) |
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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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