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Robot Clerks Become A Reality In China
'The robot clerk in the waiting-room checked her number...' - Miriam Allen deFord, 1952. (1/7/2026) |
Can One Robot Do Many Tasks?
'... with the Master-operator all you have to do is push one! A remarkable achievement!' - Robert Sheckley, 1952. (1/5/2026) |
The New Habitable Zones Include Asimov's Ribbon Worlds
'...there's a narrow belt where the climate is moderate.' - Harl Vincent, 1931. (1/23/2026) |
Atlas Robot Makes Uncomfortable Movements
'Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype. A mimetic poly-alloy. Liquid metal.' - James Cameron, 1991. (1/3/2026) |
Boring Company Drills Asimov's Single Vehicle Tunnels
'It was riddled with holes that were the mouths of tunnels.' - Isaac Asimov, 1951 (1/1/2026) |
Humanoid Robots Tickle The Ivories
'The massive feet working the pedals, arms and hands flashing and glinting...' - Herbert Goldstone, 1953. (12/29/2025) |
A Remarkable Coincidence
'There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here...' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1953. (12/27/2025) |
Cortex 1 - Today A Warehouse, Tomorrow A Calculator Planet
'There were cubic miles of it, and it glistened like a silvery Christmas tree...' - Clifford Simak, 1949. (12/25/2025) |
Perching Ambush Drones
'On the chest of drawers something was perched.' - Philip K. Dick, 1956. (12/23/2025) |
Leader-Follower Autonomous Vehicle Technology
'Jason had been guiding the caravan of cars as usual...' - Gordon R. Dickson, 1954. (12/21/2025) |
Golf Ball Test Robot Wears Them Out
"The robot solemnly hit a ball against the wall, picked it up and teed it, hit it again, over and again...' - Frederik Poh, 1954. (12/19/2025) |
Boring Company Vegas Loop Like Asimov Said
'There was a wall ahead... It was riddled with holes that were the mouths of tunnels.' Isaac Asimov, 1951. (12/17/2025) |
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Aircoat
A flying device.
(From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
Steam Cart Horse
A steam-powered autonomaton horse to pull a wagon or cart.
(From Frank Reade and his Steam Horse [1883] by Harry Enton) |
News-Machine
An automated device that presents a variety of different broadcast forms on the same device.
(From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
Automated Bomber
A bombing plane that automatically targets, drops, returns for fuel and more munitions, all automatically.
(From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
Automatic Gun
A large artillery device that is entire automated.
(From The Gun [1952] by Philip K. Dick) |
Push Humans Into Mental Illness
When a robot pushes a person into a harmful psychological state.
(From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
Automatic Loader
Entirely automated system for replenishing the arms on a bomber plane.
(From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
Mechanical Grease Monkey
(From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
Automatic Fuel Hose
A robotic snakelike hose to refuel aircraft.
(From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
Telagog
Remote control excellence - guaranteed!
(From The Guided Man [1952] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
Memory Vault
Your personal computer memory, that you can't live without.
(From The End of Summer [1954] by Algis Budrys) |
Teaching a Robot
Giving instruction to a robot whose brain is not preprogrammed or otherwise fitted for a particular task.
(From Lenny [1958] by Isaac Asimov) |
Racial Mentality
A kind of group-mind or shared consciousness.
(From Star Maker [1937] by Olaf Stapledon) |
Pretentionists
People who took refuge in the past with their customs and lives.
(From Ring Around the Sun [1952] by Clifford Simak) |
Pseudopersonalities
Fragments of distress, playing back in an autonomous robot's brain.
(From Terminus [1961] by Stanislaw Lem) |
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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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