HRP-2 Auld Lang Syne Theremin
Happy New Year! (re: Herbert Goldstone)

PR2 Robot Wanders 100 Km Autonomously
This is PR2 - why don't they let it wander around my house, folding the laundry? (re: Gregory Benford)

ETH Quadcopters Perform Jingle Bells On Real Piano
They can do more than just watch you; they can entertain you over the holidays. (re: Herbert Goldstone)

Nao Robot Video Demonstrates Improvements
Just in time for the holidays, the Nao robot has improved specifications and histrionics. (re: Various)

Romeo Robot A Robant For Elder Care
Grasping the firm arm of my trusted robot Romeo, I totter into a brave new future. (re: Philip K. Dick)

China's Spherical Walking Robot With Retractable Arms
Updated! Favorite design of supervillains patented! Diagrams show this walking spherical robot with retractable arms. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Fracking Earthquakes
Oil companies pump a dense slurry into the rocks far under a town, hoping to create fractures to release natural gas. What could go wrong? (re: Various)

MGX 3D Printed Goods Almost Has it
They almost have that Gibsonian business model figured out. (re: William Gibson)

NASA Rail Launch In Supermarionation
Where should we look to find new ideas on how to get spacecraft into orbit? I'll give you three guesses. (re: Gerry Anderson)

Earthworms Absorb Copper Nanomaterials From Soil
Update! on copper nanoparticle toxicity study. Engineered nanomaterials can be taken up from the environment and moved up the food chain. (re: Larry Niven)

Robot Pianist Is Self-Correcting
This little robot is just starting out, but it can listen and learn from its own mistakes. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Invisibility Cloak Fools Naked Eye
interesting new technique uses naturally-occurring materials to form an invisibility cloak. (re: EE 'Doc' Smith)

Wet Kissing Cell Phone Prototype
Skip all that texting and smiley faces nonsense; these cell phone prototypes deliver the emotional goods. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Medical Researcher 'Discovers' Integration
Updated! Do we need a specific type of scientist or researcher that specializes in knowing the specifics of many different fields of knowledge? (re: A.E. van Vogt)

Binishells Graceful Housing
This may just be the quickest way to construct a permanent shelter. (re: Larry Niven)

Snakebot Conquers Obstacle Course
Snake robots are becoming surprisingly versatile in their movements. (re: Greg Bear)

New ESAIL Video: Deploy Tethers!
'A magsail can get you to Mars in about the same time it took the Mayflower to cross the Atlantic.' (re: Michael Flynn)

Autonomous Adaptive Structure Uses Shape Memory Polymer
Part of an autonomous adaptive structure created at MIT. (re: J.G. Ballard)

DoDAMM Autonomous Robot Sentry Gun
This gun targets and fires automatically. (re: Michael Crichton)

Stretchable Silicon Electronics For Sports Apparel
Maybe Reebok could include a stopwatch along with the sensors; that's what Niven and Barnes fans are hoping. (re: Niven and Barnes)

Robot Waiters And Receptionists In China Restaurant
Robotic waiters get better and better, take a look at this restaurant in China. (re: George Lucas)

Sonic Screwdrivers Using Ultrasonic Force Fields
Ultrasonic force fields can apply real forces to tiny objects. (re: Various)

Will Lucas Resurrect Dead Actors Digitally?
Is George Lucas obsessed with bringing dead celebrities back to life? He'd need at least one sfna-only technology to do it. (re: Various)

UAVs Schooled In Thermals By Peregrine Falcons
The more efficiently a UAV can maneuver, the longer it can stay on station. Birds have millions of years of experience; let them teach us. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Robots With Knives 3, Irregularly Shaped Meat 0
This HAMDAS-R robot is the latest in bots with knife-wielding skills; can you name any others? (re: Robert Silverberg)

Google Ebookstore - Great Expectations In The Cloud
A few glitches in the cloud not withstanding, Google's eBookstore is open for business. (re: Stanislaw Lem)

New Black From NASA Uses Nanotubes
This new material is blacker than black paint. (re: E.E. 'Doc Smith)

Electronic Sunglasses Designer Needs Your Help!
Ever wanted to be a venture capitalist? Bring these glare-reducing glasses into reality as a consumer product at KickStarter. (re: Larry Niven)

New Building Block For Alien Life Discovered
Amazing discovery appears to show that we must add at least one element to our list of possible building blocks of life. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Pocket God's Hundreds Of Ways To Play God
Let's not forget who thought about this idea long before The Sims - the amazing Stanislaw Lem. (re: Stanislaw Lem)

Pi4-Workerbot Adapts Quickly
This adaptable robot is available to fill in on those shifts where no short-term human help is available. No, it's not an American robot. (re: Harry Harrison)

Robot Picks Strawberries, Doesn't Eat Any
This way, we humans get all of the strawberries. (re: Various)

Computers Need Your Help In Image Recognition
Science fiction fans benefited from the work of Harry Harrison, who discussed the kinds of help that human beings could give to computers and robots fifty years ago. (re: Harry Harrison)

Samsung Flexible 3D AMOLED Display
Creative concept from Samsung may provide a better way to present stereoscopic images. (re: E.C. Tubb)

Synthespian Wannabe: Tron Legacy's Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges enjoyed being scanned into the movie Tron: Legacy. His original character did not enjoy being scanned into the video-game Tron. (re: William Gibson)

Stem Cell Spray For Burn Healing
Ready for your art-derm spray? It's on trial now at the University of Utah Burn Care Center. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Hey WikiLeaks! Where's My Shockwave Rider App?
John Brunner had a pretty good idea about this some forty-five years ago. (re: John Brunner)

Space Junk-Eating Pod-Craft
Some day, a solution to the problem of orbital debris will get off the ground. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Disposable E-Readers?
E-Readers could be cheap enough to read the content and then throw away. (re: Neal Stephenson)

'Super Photons' Blob State Matter
Amazing new material reveals once again the quantum nature of light. (re: John W. Campbell)

Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (BEAR) Evolves
Pulled out of battle by a robot? It could happen. (re: Takazawa Kijuro)

Land Crawler eXtreme Ready For Humma Kavula
If you are looking for a unique, child-sized riding robot, look no further. (re: Various)

CyberTherapy Avatar Will See You Now
Cybertherapists use avatars to help patients in a virtual therapeutic environment. (re: Orson Scott Card)

3D Nano Molecular Structures Can Be Built On A Surface
Working nanotechnology gets a bit closer with this first time development. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Morphy Nanny Robot Teaches, Learns From Babies
How much longer till we have all of the elements for a nanny robot? (re: Philip K. Dick)

Blitz Chess Terminator's Speedy Robot Arm
Robots are beating humans (or at least fighting them to a draw) much faster these days. (re: Ambrose Bierce)

Business Leaders Brain-Scanned
The world of work will never be the same; business leaders distinguished by brain scan. (re: Philip K. Dick)

DEFLEXION Apparel For Superheroes
High impact protection while retaining excellent breathability and washability. (re: Larry Niven)

Robots In Advertising Mostly CGI, Fortunately
'Robot-salesmen were everywhere, gesturing, pleading, shrilling.' Thanks for warning us, PKD. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Agrarian Detroit, Your Harvest Home
The Vegetable City? It doesn't quite have the same ring as 'The Motor City', but give it time. (re: Isaac Asimov)

Spacetime Cloak Of Invisibility Conceals Events
This unusual suggestion from UK physicists may provide a unique kind of temporal shield. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Brick Road-Printing Machine
Now with Disney and Thunderbirds update! Pretty impressive machine performs a difficult task admirably well; those of us who have done this task by hand salute the designers. (re: China Mieville)

Cognitive Enhancement (For Us) Vs. Degradation (For The Enemy)
Philip K. Dick was also fascinated with the idea of targeted weapons that degraded enemy performance. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Kinect Hack Yields 'Minority Report' Interface
Very convincing video shows the potential of this 'toy' - somebody should whisper in Steve Ballmer's ear about this one. (re: Steven Spielberg)

Computer Recognizes Human Emotions From Conversation
What are the practical applications of a computer that can correctly infer emotions from speech? (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

IEM Pill Microchip Remote Monitoring Of Dosage
It sends data to a Bluetooth-enabled dermal patch. (re: William Gibson)

Ping Pong Robot Analyzes Own Game
Sure, you might be able to beat this prototype robot. For now. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Virtual Star Hatsune Miku In 3D Hologram Concert Video
Amazing HD video of this live concert presented by an idoru, a personality-construct famous in Japan. (re: William Gibson)

Gold Nanoparticles To Make Trees Into Street Lights?
What would a forest of luminous trees look like? (re: Jack Vance)

Marvin Minsky's Tentacle Arm Video
Even in 1968, it was time to 'Beware the 'long, flexible, glittering tentacles...'' (re: H.G. Wells)

Sponge Bath Robot (And Human Volunteer)
Helpful health care robots are starting to provide a wide variety of care. (re: Katsuhiro Otomo)

Boeing Sixth Gen Fighter Needs No Pilot
How can pilots survive the high-gee maneuvers of the 21st century? (re: Various)

Small Human Livers Grown In Lab
The shortage of livers for transplant may be a solvable problem. (re: Larry Niven)

Holographic Videoconferencing
Amazing display could be large enough to display a full-size live image of a person or even a car. (re: Edmond Hamilton)

EO To Asimo: Walking Robots Evolve 1986-2010 Videos
The history of ASIMO's walking evolution in videos. (re: Various)

Outlandish Disguise Fools Airline Security
I'm not sure if disguises are getting better or people are becoming more desperate. (re: Paul Verhoven)

Microwave Thermal Thruster With Beamed Propulsion
Yes, we're ready for thrusters. And what about those warp drives? (re: Gene Roddenberry)

E-Voting Simple And Verifiable
Does David Bismark have the best idea for a simple, verifiable and transparent means of electronic voting? (re: John Brunner)

TEMPO2 Uses Pulsars For Celestial GPS
Ah, the age of the space beacon is upon us at last! (re: George O. Smith)

Rice-Planting Robots Rescue Japanese Farmers
Rice-planting robots help out in the fields. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Robofish Quick As Startled Pike
Admire the quickness of this new robotic fish; it's eight times quicker than previous robofish. (re: Michael Swanwick)

Virtual Eternity Digital Clones By Intellitar
Prepare for eternity with the Intelligent Avatar Platform. Do it for your children. Do it soon, because you never know. (re: Various)

Print Out New Skin Directly Onto Your Body
In situ printing of brand new skin may eclipse some other technologies already under development. (re: Various)

Airbus Proposes Invisible Plane
Airbus has a great idea for a transparent fuselage - I wonder where they got that idea? (re: Various)

Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit
This elastic garment should reduce the effects of microgravity environments. (re: C.J. Cherryh)

Flexible Nanowire Data Storage
Interestingly, the creators of this material see it being used concealed in ordinary day-to-day devices. (re: Frank Herbert)

Q Sensor Wristband Detects Emotions
This device brings hope to those who care for autistic children. (re: Various)

Robots Mix, Flip Pancakes Made From Scratch
These bots can visit my kitchen anytime. (re: Anthony Boucher)

Gas Giant Exoplanet Can Has Moons?
Is it possible for a gas gian to form in a binary star system? And could that exoplanet have moons? (re: Various)

CamBall Smallest Personal Camcorder
Yes, but can you drop them from orbit? (re: Robert Silverberg)

Cubelets - Buy A Robot Swarm For $300
UPDATED with Terrahawks! Now here's a great toy from the future - and you can buy it in time for the holidays! (re: Philip K. Dick)

Hair Brush Reads Your Mind
A whole new kind of consumer brain scanning has been opened up today. (re: Philip K. Dick)

EARL Robot Bowler Perfect-300-Gamebot
Mano-a-roboto in bowling. (re: Various)

One-Way Human Mission To Mars
Plans to colonize other planets have stalled; maybe we should just go for it. (re: Various)

ACM-R4H Snake Robot Duct Inspector
It can slither and undulate and even raise its head like a cobra. (re: Various)

Babies Treat Robots Like Human Beings
If babies accept expressive robots as friends, would they accept robots as nannies? (re: Philip K. Dick)

Dancing HRP-4C Robot Uncanny Valley Girl
This robotic dancer is a real trouper; 'her' movements are artful and realistic. (re: Various)

Army Wrist Display Uses 4.3 Inch OLED
Field trials of this thin, lightweight and ruggedized communications device are underway. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Undersea Mining With Nautilus Minerals Seafloor Production System
Nautilus Minerals is developing the first seafloor gold and copper exploration and mining operation. (re: Jules Verne)

AutoNOMOS Robotic Taxi Called By iPad App
This modified VW Passat can be called and controlled with an iPad. (re: Philip K. Dick)

When Do I Get My Language Rectifier?
Two giant corporations, each with their own approach to the problem, each with vast resources. (re: Hugo Gernsback)

SBU Self Balancing Unicycle Perfected In V2.0
Revolutionary device now in its second iteration; comfortable, fast and environmentally responsible transportation is ready today. (re: Robert Heinlein)

MIT Glider Lands On a Perch Like A Bird
This little glider has an amazing biomimetic feature. (re: Roger Zelazny)

MovieReshape Like Bruce Sterling's Video-Manicuring
Impressive video shows what can be accomplished with image manipulation. (re: Bruce Sterling)

Berkeley Bionics eLEGS Exoskeleton
Exoskeletons will be available in US clinics early next year. (re: Fritz Leiber)

Google's Autonomous Robotic Car
Self-driving cars have put over 140,000 miles on the road. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Sony Internet TV Foreseen In 1946
'It looks like a vision-receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get.' (re: Murray Leinster)

Earth's Alien Life Forms In Avatar
Sometimes sf writers draw inspiration from the alien life forms present right here on our own planet. (re: James Cameron)

Stretchable Electronic Skin Input Device Video
Let your fingers do the walking - on your own skin. (re: John Varley)

Fujitsu Social Robot Bear Video
Soon, this little robot will be ready for grandma and grandpa - or the grand kids. (re: Harry Harrison)

NEC Billboard Minority Report-Style
John Anderton - I'm a billboard, and I can guess your gender, age and ethnicity while you walk by, and show you an appropriate ad. (re: Steven Spielberg)

NELL Computer Learns To Surf The Web For Facts
This computer spends more time on the Internet than you do. (re: Robert Heinlein)

eXistenZ iPhone Charger Cable
This umbilical cord-inspired iPhone charger may make you think about Halloween early this year. (re: Various)

Permanent Mechanical Heart A First For Children
Philip K. Dick talked about artificial mechanical organs almost sixty years ago. (re: Philip K. Dick)

MobilePay USA Credit Card App For Smartphones
Frederik Pohl called this one in 1965 - just one of the characteristics of his prescient joymaker concept. (re: Frederik Pohl)

DEMON UAV Has No Moving Flaps
Successful demonstration of 'flapless flight' in this unmanned aerial vehicle. (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Habitable Planet Gliese 581g Is A 'Ribbon World'
Asimov described planets like this one as 'ribbon worlds' and extolled the virtues of their unusual microclimates. (re: Isaac Asimov)

XOS 2 Raytheon Gen 2 Exoskeleton For Ironman 2
Iron Man, your new suit awaits! (re: Fritz Leiber)

Festo Bionic Handling Assistant Video
Terrific video presents Festo's robotics work, as described by the engineers who created it. (re: H.G. Wells)

Suspended Animation For Surgery Patients
Chill out - you'll live longer. (re: Edward Page Mitchell)

iCub Robot ARCHER Gets Weapons Training
This little iCub humanoid robot learned to shoot a bow and arrow by itself. Just a bow and arrow. For now. (re: Various)

Panasonic Robotic Care Assistance With Wheelchair
Robotic aids for your old age are on the way, America. (re: Katsuhiro Otomo)

First Artificial Human Ovary
The Social Predestination Room is down two doors, on the left. (re: Aldous Huxley)

Deleting Gene Makes Mice Smarter
'I dint know mice were so smart.' Charley Gordon, in Flowers For Algernon. (re: Daniel Keyes)

Brain Coprocessor Platform Needed
Do we need a Brain Implant Operating System? (re: William Gibson)

Assault Intervention Device - A Pain Ray Gun
Should this device be used in the United States? (re: Ray Cummings)

PIRO Window Washing Robot
Nicely implemented window washing robot perfect for those vertical surfaces. (re: Robert Heinlein)

VW Talking Newspaper Ad
The newspapers have finally started talking back. (re: Greg Bear)

Brother AirScouter Retinal Imaging Display Video
Remarkable technology presaged sixty years earlier in The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth. (re: Pohl/Kornbluth)

Memory-Erasing Drugs
Do you have memories that you would rather not be able to access? This researcher has a possible technique. (re: Jack Vance)

'Air Hopper' Robot Grasshopper
This robot has some leaping ability, for use on uneven terrain. (re: Bruce Sterling)

Prototype Lunar Greenhouse
Interesting concept from the University of Arizona; Robert Heinlein went a bit further in his thinking, particularly from the standpoint of recycling. (re: Robert Heinlein)

Core Bipedal Robotic Vehicle
With a bit more quickness, you'll be thinking that the AT-ST walkers from Star Wars were coming to life. (re: George Lucas)

HRP-4 Robot Is Lean, Athletic
HRP-4 dispels your mental image of robots as slow and ponderous. (re: Various)

Kiss ME Device For Kiss Communication
A novel hi-fidelity physical interface for transferring a remote and mediated kiss in real-time. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Fabrican Spray-On T-Shirt Video
This video recently turned up; Stanislaw Lem nailed this idea almost fifty years ago. (re: Stanislaw Lem)

Rail-Launched Scramjets To Space
NASA looks forward to cutting edge retrofuture strategies for space launches. (re: Wylie and Balmer)

2011 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge Announced
Here's your open challenge, world readers. The focus is on artificial intelligence. (re: Various)

Robots Learn To Understand Outdoor Scenes
Robots like Philip K. Dick's leadies need this kind of capability, if they are to serve on the surface of the wide Earth. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Robot Skin Detects Your Gentle Caress
You want your robot to be this sensitive; don't miss the extra links to learn about robot skin as soft as yours. (re: Roger Zelazny)

Remote Control Of Brain Activity
How can we ensure the alertness of Warfighters? Reduce stress, enhance cognition and reduce experienced pain? (re: Vernor Vinge)

iPad For Radiologists?
Does the iPad really have what it takes to be a science fiction medical tablet computer? A radiologist takes a look. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Hubble Shows 'smoke wound in a tight spiral coil'
Larry Niven gave us a view decades before this Hubble photo. Thanks, Larry. (re: Larry Niven)

FrontlineSMS Legal Justice Via Cell Phone
These remote lawyer programs are just the start - wait until they come up with a 'virtual counsel'. (re: David Brin)

Swiss Thought-Controlled Wheelchair
More research on brain-controlled assistive devices; success for the Swiss. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Tractor Beam Works Over Longer Distances
Still a prototype, and it only works in an atmosphere. But still, we're making progress. (re: E.E. 'Doc' Smith)

Brian Robot Reads Your Emotions, Then Creeps You Out
'I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you're badly upset.' (re: Arthur C. Clarke)

Life-sized Duplicate Of Deceased Girlfriend Manufactured
A grieving businessman purchases a companion manufactured to order. (re: Alice W. Fuller)

Laser-Powered Helicopter
Held aloft on a beam of light. (re: Niven and Pournelle)

First Cashless Society - In Somaliland?
Leave your wheelbarrow of cash at home. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Inflatable Lofts For NASA 'Campers' On Moon And Mars
I love it when I already have a good idea what NASA is looking for in a contest because I read about it decades ago in sf. (re: Larry Niven)

Artificial Kidney Prototype To Be Implantable
Artificial organs have been a science fiction staple for a long time; perhaps we'll see implantable mechanical organs soon. (re: Philip K. Dick)

Self-Healing Concrete Uses Bacteria For Healing
Is it possible that bacteria in buildings could play the role of your body's osteoblast cells - repairing their minor fractures? (re: J.G. Ballard)

Exmobaby Biosensor Pajamas For Baby
Hush little baby, don't say a word. Mama's gonna ... be watching you on her cell phone. (re: David H. Keller)

Apple Live Streaming Fail
In which Apple makes a promise and then fails to deliver. (re: Edmond Hamilton)

Re Google: William Gibson, Read More SF
It turns out that sf writers have imagined Google and Google's future plans rather precisely. (re: Frederik Pohl)

Nike's Air Kicks Back To The Future Power Laces
Marty McFly, your shoes are almost ready. (re: )

EggTorte Mini Micromouse
I really like the speed of this little learning robot. (re: Maurice A. Hugi)

Yale Aerial Manipulator Flying Robotic Hand
Just think of all the possible uses of a flying robotic hand. (re: Robert L. Forward)

M-Dress Has Phone, SIM Card And Antenna Embedded
This dress is a wearable phone. (re: Murray Leinster)