Pondering a cyborg future
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Blog: How close is modern science to an era when technology can restore lost motor functions. Scientists say we're getting close-but a huge effort still remains.
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By Rhodri Marsden  Even fairly recently, a personal videophone was some absurdly futuristic sci-fi vision, akin to strapping on a jetpack or having a robot do your ironing. But if you have a newer model of mobile phone and a 3G network connection, it may be within reach.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Ray Kurzweil, an inventor fascinated with the connection between humans and computers, says that emerging trends in biotechnology are opening a realistic path to immortality.
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Machines will achieve human level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor predicts.
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FOR decades, science fiction has promised a future in which lifeâs most mundane chores are carried out by robots. Sadly, the clunky, wobbling automatons that have been wheeled out as examples of this brave
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--When Bill Gates talked about a new kind of computer in a speech a couple of years ago, I thought it was pure fantasy.
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Devices made of heart tissue could screen drugs and power implantable robots.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Technology is changing daily. It&#39;s a wonder we aren&#39;t all punch-drunk from the velocity with which new things emerge and not-so-old things become obsolete.
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In Japan, a 28,000-square-foot homage to the automaton begins the archiving of man's fascination with robots. Take a look at some of the specimens. By Brian Ashcraft from Wired magazine.
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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Researchers have created an electronic contact lens that could be used as a display or a medical sensor.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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Part human, part machine tests kit for planetary missions. European scientists have sent a 'cyborg' to roam the Spanish countryside as part of a mission to create robots that are good at exploring planets ...
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Technology challenges us to question our assumptions about love, fidelity and who we can have sex with. Commentary by Regina Lynn.