First Chinese Security Guard Robot
This security bot is able to avoid obstacles, follow a predesignated route and send images of trouble. (re: Philip K. Dick)

'New' Israeli Bionic Hornet Concept Is 70 Years Old
The Israelis shouldn't bother with making up science-fictional insect-sized robots - let the writers do it! (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)

Chick Embryo Regrows Wing With Wnt Signaling
Remarkable achievement from the Salk Institute; eleven years of work have paid off. (re: Frank Herbert)

Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection And Self-Modeling
Amazing proprioceptive robot creates a model of its shape automatically; it can sense damage to itself and reconfigure its walk. (re: Roger P. Graham)

Manned Asteroid Mission For Constellation Program?
Other uses are being planned for the lunar landing gear NASA already has in the works. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Dattoo Personal Skinprint Technology Concept
Dattoos are a concept now, but they could be implemented with technologies we have now. (re: John Varley)

Wireless Power For Laptops, Cellphones?
An old concept perhaps made new with "non-radiative" wireless power transmission. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Electric Voting From Home Via Internet
John Brunner wrote about electronic voting in a very revealing way in 1975 (re: John Brunner)

Space Mirrors Could Create Mars Pocket-Eden
Rigel Woida has been given funding to explore an unusual means of making Mars more comfortable for human exploration. (re: Niven, Pournelle, Flynn)

UK SimCity-Style Social Policy Model - A Kingdom In A Box
UK social science researchers make an old idea new again - Stanislaw Lem's 'kingdom in a box.' (re: Stanislaw Lem)

Terminator Tongues - USAF Seeks Voice Transformation Tech
Why does the USAF want soldiers to be able to talk like someone else? (re: Various)

Robots Making Smaller Robots Making Smaller Robots
Robotic technologies make possible smaller and smaller manufactured goods - too small for people to make. (re: Raymond Z. Gallun)

Dr. Google Works For Patients, Doctors
Physicians who used search engine giant Google to make diagnoses did amazingly well. (re: Various)

Propulsion System For 'Fantastic Voyage' Robot
A novel propulsion system that works for micro-robots to be injected inside the body. (re: Harry Kleiner)

Robotender Ernie First Robot Bartender
This is a surprisingly early robotic bartender that could really do it all - except maybe ask for your keys. (re: Alfred Bester)

RI-MAN Face Tracking, Electronic Nose Robot Update
This 'bot has some great features not documented earlier. (re: Katsuhiro Otomo)