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FrankenPC: War will eventually get to the point that these UAV's will be so scary looking, no one will want to piss us off. more »
Hamslicer: Where do they get such wonderful toys? more »
secretmission: Totally cylon-ic. Can we get an interior shot (i.e. its organic guts)? more »
SalilaNumskis: That's way better than having a music or art program at my son's school. more »
Dr Emilio Lizardo: Bult by Cyberdyne systems? more »
Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: When did Apple start making planes? more »
Sam: If it's unmanned why does it have a cockpit? Or windscreen? Or is that an air intake shaped like a windscreen? more »
Johnny Dactyl: Wasn't this on Eureka last week? more »
PVIII: Is it bad that I think "Michael Bay should film that blowing shit up"? Well, actually, dont answer that; I know it's bad, but I don't care. more »
regis: is it wrong that i think that's kinda sexy looking? if it is, don't tell me. because, frankly, that's pretty sexy hardware, right there. more »

#killerrobots

The Terrifying Beauty Of A Combat Vehicle That Thinks, Plans, And May One Day Harbor Dark Desires
Try not to drool on this prototype of the X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System, on display yesterday at Naval Air Station Pax River. Designed for autonomous launch and recovery, it's sleek, shiny and menacing. (Click to enlarge.) [Getty Images]
#battlestargalactica

"Robot Uprising" Expert Gives You Invaluable Cylon Survival Skills
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 »
#scifashion

Is The Fashion Industry The First Step In Robot World Domination?
All over the place, women fashion models are being transformed into something metallic and unearthly. Their shoulders are getting squarer, their faces shinier and more impassive, and their bodies silvery and hard. Could it be the first stage in the impending robot takeover? Warning: gallery includes photo of see-thru top. More »
#rant

Terminator Salvation Made Me Miss Sarah Connor Chronicles More
Terminator Salvation and the Sarah Connor Chronicles both ended the same way: in a post-apocalyptic future, with John Connor lost and confused. But there's only one Terminator story I want to see continued, and it's not connected to McG. Here's why Salvation made me miss Sarah Connor more than ever. More »
#geekchic

Peace Breaks Out Between Robots And Humans
Call it a fitting, if belated, end to our Killer Robot Week; a t-shirt sign that, one day, human and bot will live in perfect harmony... or, at least, be able to shake hands without disaster. More »
#strangequestions

What Gender Is Your Roomba?
Why do we assign genders to robots, even when they look like Wall-E or a Roomba vacuum cleaner? That was the subject of a panel at WisCon, where a roboticist debated sexbots and macho tanks with writers and science fiction fans. More »
#triviagasm

How Isaac Asimov's Non-Deadly Robots Got Lethal
With his elegantly simple Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov sidestepped the murderous robot cliche that had so dominated science fiction. But even the Good Doctor wasn't completely immune to the lure of killer robots. More »
#terminatorsalvation

Ben Bests Bale At Box Office
Apparently, killer robots can be defeated by animated inanimate objects. At least, that's one conclusion to be drawn from Friday's US box office, which saw Terminator Salvation outgrossed by Night At The Museum 2. More »
#io9backgrounder

Why Ultron Deserves To Be Our New Robot Overlord
What's that? You've never even heard of the apparently-indestructible robot who's caused trouble for Marvel Comics' Avengers many times in his 40+ years of existence? Sit back and learn. Soon, you too will kiss his robot foot.
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#poll

So What Did You Think Of Terminator Salvation?
We've told you what we thought of Terminator Salvation, but what about you? How does it stack up to the first three movies? If you can read this, you are the movie critic. More »
#terminator

The io9 Survival Guide To The Terminator Universe
Terminator Salvation is in theaters, and all your friends are rushing to see it. But you won't be ready to face this robot-oppressed future, unless you know all about the Terminator franchise first. Here's all the best io9 Terminator coverage. More »
#books

Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots
What will robots really be like when they finally achieve a human level of intelligence and autonomy? No one knows for sure, but we've put together a list of books that will challenge and disturb your preconceptions about what robots might become. More »
#killerrobots

Is This The Greatest Killer Robot Story Of All Time?

"The Robots Of Death" sounds like a lost Akira Kurosawa film, if Kurosawa had only embraced the killer-robot genre. But the 1977 Doctor Who story is something just as great: a Hitchcockian thriller that has something to say about our relationship with technology. Spoilers of death! More »
#scaryinventions

A Robot Who Walks Like a Human
It's the next step in creating a robot who can pass as human. Boston Dynamics, the group who brought you the creepy BigDog robot, is working with the military to build PetMan, who walks just like a human. And that's not the only thing human about PetMan. More »
#conceptart

When Machines Destroy the Earth - A Gallery
What will the planet look like when robots scorch it into sulfurous dirt? Or when machines convert the human world into a pile of iron and sludge? Check out our gallery of art that shows the world after the techno-apocalypse. More »
#terminator

Moon Bloodgood Talks Her Terminated Topless Scene
So after all McG's excitement about naked Moon Bloodgood, turns out he was the one to cut out the infamous Salvation topless scene. Moon had no problem with it — we know, because we asked her. Find out what that scene entailed, and why it was cut. More »
#killerrobots

The Absolute Best Way To Stop An Army Of Killer Robots
When killer robots menace all the fleshy ones, your options are few: You can mount a feverish, last-ditch resistance, with everyone wearing camo pants. You can travel back in time naked. Or you could just get them to plug Marvin The Paranoid Android into their main computer. More »
#crapfuturism

We're Only 16 Years Away From Creating Actual Cylons
We're much closer than you think to the reality of a "mindclone" — a computer with the mental capacity of the human mind — says the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies' Martine Rothblatt. We're "close enough to feel the bits and bytes of cyberbreath on our cheeks." Ooh, spooky. More »
#review

Terminator Salvation's Terrible Shortfall
In Terminator Salvation, John Connor's voice carries over the radio waves, telling stories about the human spirit and how it'll triumph over our robot oppressors. As if the power of storytelling will save our future. So why is the movie itself so inept at storytelling? Massive, bone-crushing spoilers below. More »
#scaryinventions

Wolfram|Alpha Is Making the Internet Sentient
A new web application called Wolfram|Alpha looks like Google but is far scarier in its implications for humanity's future. Developers say it will "provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries." A single source of definitive answers? What could go wrong? More »
#conceptart

The Robots Who Were Halfway Between Disco and Punk
This image comes from a 1978 issue of futurist magazine OMNI, to illustrate an article on robots. In this picture, and several others below, you can see the cyberpunk look of the 1980s slowly erasing the more surreal, hallucinatory scifi styles of the 1960s and 70s. (One image possibly NSFW.) More »
#triviagasm

Sex Robots Who Kill: Is Anything Deadlier?

As soon as we have convincing(ish) androids and gynoids, we'll create pleasure-droids. And soon after that, those sex-machines will use their super-powerful thigh muscles to try and kill us. Here are 15 examples of the sexy robot death that awaits you in the future. More »
#madscience

One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
Thanks to advances in biotechnology, German researchers can now rapidly mass produce swatches of real human skin. At 34 Euros per unit, this manufactured skin is so cheap you might soon find it for sale next to bandages in the pharmacy. More »
#importantlessons

How to Turn a Robot Evil, In Nine Easy Steps
Robots can be surgeons and artists, but they can also be murderous, world-ending death machines. And that's way cooler. Here are nine ways to turn your robot evil, according to science fiction. More »
#killerrobotcrush

The Gunslinger Outdraws Every Other Killer Robot
Throughout history, there have been many cool killer robots, but one stands bald head and shoulders above all the rest. Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses and draw your weapons; the Gunslinger is in town. More »
#madscience

Cyborg Technologies You Can Implant Now
Did you think that artificial heart in Crank 2 was fake? Think again. It's just one of many cyborg technologies in production right now. More »
#9

Discover The Secret Origin Of 9's Deadly Machines
An explosive trailer for Shane Acker's 9 just premiered on Attack Of The Show. It gives the origins of these post-apocalyptic ragdolls... plus why the terrifying red-eyed machines are so determined to wipe them out. More »
#killingmachines

Countdown Science Fiction's 10 Most Murderous Robots
It's one thing to talk about Killer Robots, but which ones have actually managed to really rack up the senseless slaughter? Here are our choices for the ten deadliest robots for you to avoid. More »
#transformers

New Transformer Clips Showcase Terrible Dialogue You Can Depend On
One thing you gotta love about the mindless boom-boom that is Transformers: the zingers. Three new clips showcase the best of the one-liners from both citizens and new robots, including "It's upgrade time." More »
#io9backgrounder

Where Do Robots Come From?
The first robots were born on January 25, 1921, the day Karl Capek's play R.U.R. premiered in Prague, more than 80 years before Skynet achieved sentience and declared, "I think, therefore you're all toast." More »
#conceptart

Giant Robots Always Have The Right Of Way On Any City Street
I utterly love Monstertree's image of a robot preparing to terrorize a Japanese city. It's just one of the great images people have posted in ConceptArt.org's robot-art challenge. Click through to see another favorite. More »
#foundfootage

A Slutty Babysitter Falls Afoul Of The World's Deadliest Washing Machine
A serial killer dies in a hospital where his medical equipment is connected to a mainframe, so he's able to upload his consciousness into the cyber-world and turn appliances into slutty-babysitter-killing weapons of mass destruction. More »
#afternoonlistening

Walt Whitman's Best Friend Wrote The First Robot Revolution Story
Long before Isaac Asimov first touched a typewriter, Walt Whitman's boon companion William Douglas O'Connor toiled over a story of steampunk robots and political intrigue, called "The Brazen Android." And it's online as an audiobook. More »
#killerrobots

The Scariest Killer Robots Look Like Dead People

We're scared of robots that look almost, but not quite, human... because they remind us of walking corpses. And the deadliest killer robots are often the ones which exploit this zombie fear, before slaughtering us. More »
#killerchip

Germans Deny Patent For GPS/Poison Microchip
A Saudi inventor filed a patent for a "killer chip" which, once implanted, would monitor "undesirables" using a GPS. Oh, and it also comes with an extra feature: a remote-controlled cyanide dispenser, for murder. More »
#terminator

Sam Worthington Explains The Trouble With Killer Robots
Shooting with a giant metal monster that wants to rip you in half can't be all that easy. Terminator Salvation star Sam Worthington talks working with the metal giants and avoiding on-set explosions. Spoilers attack! More »
#killerrobots

Bow Down Before Your Killer Robot Overlords
It's spring and the robots are rampaging. That's why we've declared this killer robot week, and teamed up with our sister site Gizmodo to bring you a crossover extravaganza devoted to deadly machines. More »
#manvsmachine

Machines Behaving Deadly
The printers. A paper jam can be annoying. But one day, they're going to kill us all. More [Gizmodo]
#terminatorsalvation

John Connor Was Originally A Terminator 4 Supporting Character
According to Christian Bale, his Terminator Salvation role originally only had him on set for one short week. Bale shared how he fleshed out John Connor's storyline. Also, the studio released 59 stunning Terminator pics. More »
#terminator

Terminator Salvation In 4 Easy Minutes, Order Now!
Want to see Terminator Salvation, the abridged version? A new killer robots video is making the rounds, with just about the entire film in four minutes. Spoiler purists beware, there's a few small plot reveals.

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