Carpentopod Walking Table
'Twoflower's Luggage, which was currently ambling along on its little legs...' (re: Terry Pratchett)

Iron Drone Raider Counter-UAV Operations
'You've got an aggressive machine up in the air now.' - Robert Sheckley, 1953. (re: Robert Sheckley)

SpaceX Rocket Shuttle Point-To-Point On Earth
'He came to as the ship went into free flight, arching in a high parabola over the plains...' - Robert Heinlein, 1951. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Quaise Uses Beams Of Energy To Dig Geothermal Wells
'The peculiar quality of this light, which gave it its great preeminence over all other penetrating rays...' - Frank Stockton, 1897. (re: Frank Stockton)

Robots Repair And Modify Themselves
'The overworked leg motor would have to cool down before he could work on it...' Harry Harrison, 1956. (re: Harry Harrison)

Waymo And Tesla 'Autonomous Cabs' Are Piloted By Remote Drivers
‘Where to, sport?’ the starter at cab relay asked. - Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K Dick)

Robot Janitors Get To Work
'A few mechanical cleaning devices crept here and there...'- Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Robots Learn To Install Charged Batteries Into Themselves
This is nothing new for science fiction fans! (re: Not known.)

Robot Rabbits Entice Pythons
'That little robot rabbit knew what it was talking about...' - JW Groves, 1950. (re: JW Groves)

LLM 'Cognitive Core' Now Evolving
'Their only check on the growth and development of Vulcan 3 lay in two clues: the amount of rock thrown up to the surface... and the amount of the raw materials and tools and parts which the computer requested.' - Philip K. Dick, 1960. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Has Elon Musk Given Up On Mars?
'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.' (re: Robert Heinlein)

Bacteria Turns Plastic Into Pain Relief? That Gives Me An Idea.
'I guess there's nobody round this table who doesn't have a Crosswell [tapeworm] working for him in the small intestine.' (re: Brian W. Aldiss)

When Your Child's Best Friend Is An AI
'Figments of his mind in one sense, of course, for he had shaped them...' - Clifford Simak, 1963. (re: Clifford Simak)

China's Drone Mothership Can Carry 100 Drones
'So the parent drone carries a spotter that it launches...' (re: Daniel Suarez)

Drones Recharge In Mid-Air Like Jets Refuel!
'...nurse drones that would cruise around dumping large amounts of power into randomly selected pods.' - Neal Stephenson, 1995. (re: Neal Stephenson)

Australian Authors Reject AI Training Of Llama
'It's done with a flip of the third joint of the tentacle on the down beat.' - Anthony Boucher, 1943. (re: Anthony Boucher)