Robot Teaches Itself To Walk
'My whole idea is to get away from a machine with a set of prearranged instructions, and let them teach themselves by trial and error.' - Stephen Barr, 1960. (re: Stephen Barr)

DARPA's Subterranean Challenge
Let the machines explore the underground city! (re: Ridley Scott)

FCC Asks For Feedback On Repeal Of Net Neutrality
'... the machines had been instructed to give them low priority.' - John Brunner, 1975 (re: John Brunner)

Airbnb Has Surveillance Device Suggestions
'Ma'am, this is Central Security... I think you'd better have a look.' - Pournelle and Niven, 1981. (re: Pournelle and Niven)

Prufrock The Newest Boring Machine
'It sounds to me as though you had invented a kind of metal earthworm...' (re: Paul Ernst)

EVs To Be Made In ICE Detroit-Hamtramck Plant
'With hollow but immensely strong galvanically treated aluminum frames and pneumatic or cushion tires, they [can run] without recharging for several days.' - John Jacob Astor, IV, 1894. (re: John Jacob Astor IV)

AI Musicians Reach For The Top Of The Charts
'I request that you feed the correlation between those dots and the levers of the panel into my memory banks.' - Herbert Goldstone, 1953. (re: Herbert Goldstone)

Neural Net Discovers Antibiotic
'...instantly the TEMS was ... creating and discarding scores of new sciences.' - John M. Faucet, 1968. (re: John M. Faucette)

China Delivery Robot Development Quickens During COVID-2019 Outbreak
'Something very much like a camouflage-painted kangaroo.' - Bruce Sterling, 1994. (re: Bruce Sterling)

Via Virtual Reality, Mother Encounters Deceased Daughter
'But that barrier was going to melt away someday soon. The transhumanists had promised...' - Stephen Baxter, 2008. (re: Stephen Baxter)

Clothes That Do Photosynthesis
'Clothes are no longer made from dead fibers of fixed color and texture...' - JG Ballard, 1970 (re: JG Ballard)

Stratuscent Electronic Nose
'It's picking up diphenyl compounds and tetra hydrocarbons.' - Michael Crichton, 1985. (re: Michael Crichton)

CIMON Companion Robot For Space Station Astronauts
'... in some departments their power is absolute.' - James Blish, 1957. (re: James Blish)

Qbit Robot Bartender Also Makes Coffee
'...he sipped the cognac that the robot bartender handed him.' - Alfred Bester, 1956. (re: Alfred Bester)

Moving Desks Not SciFi After All
'Charged with hope, he zipped from stack to stack...' - Don Wilcox, 1939. (re: Don Wilcox)

Cruise Autonomous Car Drives Aimlessly For An Hour
Convincing video shows progress (and limitations). (re: David Keller)