Tag: robots

Here we go again: robots (intelligent machines) revolt and begin the extermination of humanity. Haven’t we had one too many doomsday movies on this theme already? I guess if its a meme, a formula and it works, why not. Daniel H. Wilson gives his novel Robopocalypse an authentic touch since he has a PhD in robotics from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and had previously publish a non-fiction guide called How to Survive a Robot Uprising, possibly modeled on Max Brooks’ 2003 handbook The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead. According to this report from The National Post, The story is set no more than a decade in the future, and at the centre of it all is Archos, a…