robots science fiction

Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of Medicine believe they have found the answer to... [10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war

Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the battlefield. There are already more than 1,000 Talon robots (pictured... [26 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns

Comment At the time it all seemed pretty academic and soundly in the realms of science fiction. Today the production of just about everything we eat, wear, use and interact with involves robots - a lot of robots! [07 Aug 2007]

Humans win robot wars

News Machines designing machines has been the theme of many popular science fiction movies, but that has become a reality. Human innovation has fought off competition from robots created using artificial intelligence in an online experiment by boffins... [28 Nov 2003]

Sci-fi or sci-future? Hollywood technology scrutinised (part two)

Comment Here, Peter Cochrane and Ray Kurzweil continue their analysis of science fiction and the shape of things to come. Now we have: Current research at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere to develop software programs and robots that have... [18 Sep 2001]

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