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Cool robots unlike any you've seen before battle humans in a near-future world where computerized cars and military drones are out to smash all homo sapiens. Until some robotics geeks and an army of Osage natives learn to fight back. More »
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Daniel Wilson's much-anticipated novel Robopocalypse hits bookstores this week. It's the hyper-realistic story of a robot uprising, and is already being made into a Steven Spielberg film slated for 2013 release. Author Wilson gives us a brief excerpt from the opening of the novel here, then explains the scientific research that went into creating a battle scene unlike anything you've ever experienced. More »
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It's official: Steven Spielberg will direct the movie version of Robopocalypse. Expect big, wide-screen, tentpole robot-revolution action, coming sometime in 2013. And there are the first details on Daniel H. Wilson's next book after Robopocalypse. According to Deadline, Spielberg is officially on board to direct Robopocalypse, with a script by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods.) Spielberg was so excited about this project that he started the ball rolling when the novel wasn't even finished — as Wilson was finishing book pages, Goddard was turning them into script pages and the movie was being storyboarded and designed on the go. Now the book is finished — it comes out next June — and Spielberg will start shooting in January 2012. In the meantime, Spielberg is in post-production on his Tin Tin movie, plus War Horse, both of which will be out in December 2011. More »
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Roboticist Daniel Wilson, author of How To Survive A Robot Uprising, is penning a robot novel that just got optioned by Steven Spielberg. Wilson told io9 what makes his robots realistic - and what his novel Robopocalypse is about. More »
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With zombies, vampires, and ecological disasters destroying the world, it's time robots got another shot at the apocalypse. And soon a book and movie from the writer of How to Survive a Robot Uprising could put humanity under robot rule. More »
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The Battlestar Galactica cast and top roboticists may be gathering on Friday to explain how to cope with the show's killer robots, but there's no need to wait. How To Survive A Robot Uprising author Daniel Wilson has answers now. More »
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You probably already knew that Nikola Tesla, who developed alternating current electricity, was so OCD that he couldn't eat food until he'd determined its exact mass. But did you know that Jack Whiteside Parsons, founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, was a Pagan who loved orgies? Or that Marie Curie, who discovered radium and coined the term "radioactive," suffered bouts of depression because as a woman she wasn't allowed to work as a professor even after she'd won two Nobel Prizes? This week you can delve into the lives (and madness) of well-known scientists with a new book from Daniel "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" Wilson and Anna C. Long, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame. More »
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If a 500 foot tall monster invaded your city, would you know how to stop it? Luckily, Wired has not one but two extremely detailed posts telling you what sort of military specs and maneuvers would probably work best against an enormous beastie. Of course, robotics expert Daniel Wilson already told us that we just need swarms of autonomous drones to do the deed for us, and frankly that sounds much easier than trying to coordinate a bunch of army troops who might be on the verge of whizzing in their camouflage uniforms. [Wired] More »
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In his latest book, How to Build a Robot Army, robotics expert Daniel Wilson offers a humorous but scientifically-accurate account of how people would fight aliens, giant monsters, and more mundane enemies (like other humans) with robot armies. Unafraid to tackle science fictional questions with real science, Wilson is also the author of the award-winning How to Survive a Robot Uprising. We caught up with him over email, and asked him some burning questions about preparing Earth for alien attack, and which animals we should be engineering to be our new biotech weapons. Plus, we got him to answer, definitively, who would win in a fight between Giant Robot and Cloverfield. Check out our interview, below. More »
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You don't have to wonder anymore about what you'll do when the aliens attack. Nor do you have to make plans all by yourself to infuse your body with microbots that will give you superstrength to smash zombies. Robotics expert Daniel Wilson, author of Where's My Jetpack?, has just published a handy guide to the apocalypse called How to Build a Robot Army. This beautifully (and humorously) illustrated guide walks you through real state-of-the-art science to explain how "to keep a sexy FemBot ready for battle" and "how to slay Godzilla" (yes, you can repurpose that chapter to work with the Cloverfield monster). More »
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