Future War Air Sea War

• 4 New Technologies That Will Carry The Weight Of War
• The Future of War: Soldier Enhancements

• The Marines Are Building Robotic War Balls
• Big robot fleet takes to UK waters
• Are Weaponized 'Crab Walker' Robots The Future Of Chinese Land Wars?
• Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats

Self-Assembling Robots

• Self Building Robot Furniture "Roombots" | Gadgetronicx
• Self-Assembling Robots Are Here, And They Are Awesome
• Self-assembling origami robot is world's first Transformer
• Real Transformers? Self-assembling paper robots invented
• A Swarm of One Thousand Robots
• Origami Robots Fold Themselves And Walk Away

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein Notebooks

Frankenstein Notebooks.

"We present here for the first time in digital form all the known manuscripts of Frankenstein, perhaps the most famous and widely reproduced work of British Romanticism. These manuscripts consist of the now disbound pages from five notebooks once the property of Mary Shelley, purchased by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in 2004, from her descendant, Lord Abinger."

Robot Workers

General

CGP Grey Explores the Rise of Robotic Workers and What That Means for Humans
Future of AI Robotics and Jobs
Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and Other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy

Emergency Services

Firefighting Robot
U.S. Navy unveils robotic firefighter
This Incredible Hospital Robot Is Saving Lives. Also, I Hate It
Health care: Hospitals cut costs with 'creepy' robots

Security

• Microsoft Built a Friggin’ DALEK

Office Robots

• SORA, The Receptionist Robot
• SORA the Secretary is a Robot For Your Office
• Swiss startup that makes lab assistant robots opens Boston office
• Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they're robots
• Robot Telemarketer Samantha West Isn't a Robot
• Robot-denying telemarketing robot may not actually be a robot

"But the peculiar thing about Samantha West isn’t just that she is automated. It’s that she’s so smartly automated that she’s trained to respond to queries about whether or not she is a robot by telling you she’s a human. I asked Haerich if there is a regulation against robots lying to you.

“I don’t…know…that…,” she said. “That’s one I’ve never been asked before. I’ve never been asked that question. Ever.”

Recording of Samantha West:

Home Robots

• Invasion of the domestic robots

“We have 12 robots in our house,” said Boisdron. “We have a vacuum cleaner robot, we have a floor cleaner robot that washes the floor with vinegar, we have a litter robot for the cat, we have a robot to wash the windows, and we have a robot to cut the grass."

• Dyson's first robot vacuum promises more suction than the competition
• Dyson Releases the Eye, a Robot Vacuum With a 360-Degree Camera | WIRED

Service Industry Robot

• Lowe’s debuts customer service robots in store
• Now on Aisle 3 at Lowe's: Customer Service Robots | NewsFactor Business Report
• A Drug-Dealing Robot That Upends the Pharmacy Model | Design | WIRED
• Meet the Company Designing Robot Bellhops for Hotels | Design | WIRED
• Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry
• Industrial cake-decorating robot
• Backed by Google Ventures, the First Robot Hotel Butler Just Reported for Duty
• Robot Butler Rolls Into California Hotel | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
• Don’t be alarmed by that robot delivering a toothbrush to your hotel room - The Washington Post
• Robot Bartender to Set Sail On Cutting-Edge Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship | Singularity HUB
• BoozeBot, A Cocktail-Making Robot That Can Mix Over 4,500 Different Drinks
• BoozeBots - The ultimate automated home cocktail mixer. BoozeBots
• Will pole dancing robots put human strippers out of work?
• The Dancing Stripper Robots Of The Future Are Now Here | So Bad So Good
• You will be 'romancing' robots in 2025, claims study

Quadruped Robots

• Fast-Running Robot Cheetah Let Off Its Leash
• Exploring the World of Quadruped Robots Post-Acquisition of Boston Dynamics
• Marines Prepare For Future War With Robot Horses And Swimming Trucks
• The Glaucus, An Open-Source Quadrupedal Soft Robot With No Hard Mechanical Parts

Miniature Dinosaur, Artificial Dinosaur

• A Miniature Dinosaur Celebrity
• Dinosaurs: Reel and Robotic
• Frauds, Fakes and Fossils | History of Geology, Scientific American Blog Network
• Creation Museum To Display Dinosaur That "Proves" Biblical Flood

History of Prosthetics

The History of Prosthetics Reveals a Long Tradition of Human Cyborgs

Freaky, Super Cute and Cartoonish Robots/Toy Robots

Freaky
Freaky Robots

Cartoonish
Cartoonish Robots
c/f A Telepresence RoboCop Piloted by Oculus Rift and Sensored Gloves

Toy
3D Printers and Drones

Technological Singularity!

Links

• Singularity-related research links, from Ray Kurzweil
• Singularity Hub | The Future Is Here Today…Robotics, Genetics, AI, Longevity, The Brain

Essays and Articles

Source.

• Wikipedia
• Are We Overthinking the Perils of Artificial Intelligence?
• Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones
• Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet into a Robotic Hivemind | Popular Science
• This Machine Can Learn About the World Just by Watching It
• The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama
• Facebook’s Quest to Build an Artificial Brain Depends on This Guy
• Curiosity And RoboSimian Robot At DARPA
• DARPA's New Biotech Division Wants To Create A Transhuman Future
• Why Robots Won't Rule
• The Next Big Thing You Missed: The Quest to Give Computers the Power of Imagination
• The Machine's Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.
• Open Letter to Eveyone Tricked into Fearing AI
• 10 Futurist Phrases And Terms That Are Complete Bullshit

10 Reasons an Artificial Intelligence Wouldn't Turn Evil

The Coming Technological Singularity - Vernor Vinge

Noam Chomsky on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity is Science Fiction!

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (First Chapter)

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future by David Brin

A Critical Discussion of Vinge’s Singularity Concept by Robin Hanson

Is a singularity just around the corner by Robin Hanson

Brief History of Intellectual Discussion of Accelerating Change by John Smart

One Half of a Manifesto by Jaron Lanier—a critique of "cybernetic totalism"

One Half of an Argument—Ray Kurzweil's response to Lanier

A discussion of Kurzweil, Turkel and Lanier by Roger Berkowitz

The Singularity Is Always Near by Kevin Kelly

The Maes-Garreau Point by Kevin Kelly

"The Singularity – A Philosophical Analysis" by David Chalmers

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, By Lev Grossman, time.com, Feb. 10, 2011

Is It Time to Give Up on the Singularity?

Reports and Curiosities

• DeepMind Technologies (AI firm purchased by Google).
• Report on The Stanford Singularity Summit 
• An IEEE report on the Singularity. 
• March 2007 Congressional Report on the SingularityAlternate Link

Fiction and Scripts

• The City of the Living Dead by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt (1930)
• The Last Evolution, by John W. Campbell, Jr (1932)
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2
• Terminator 3 
• Matrix

In the News

• Humans Appear Programmed to Obey Robots, Studies Suggest
• What Is DeepMind? The Artificial Intelligence Firm Bought By Google
• Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual | Singularity Hub
• By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity | MIT Technology Review
• The 'Singularity' is here, but without any emotion
• Does Google Glass Mean The Singularity Is Near?

Chopping Mall (1986)

Film.

"A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, The robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the "Intruders." The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores. Or . . . if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up" (imdb).

Logan's Run

Script
Novel Triology

I Feel Fantastic: Fake, Performative and Art Robots

Source. Last Moment Robot.

"I am the Last Moment Robot. I am here to help you and guide you through your last moment on Earth. I am sorry that your family and friends can't be with you right now, but don't be afraid. I am here to comfort you. You are not alone, you are with me. Your family and friends love you very much, they will remember you after you are gone."

Jordan Wolfson

Automata at the House of Automata

Source.

Animal Automata

Source.
Source 2.

Robots as Insects and Invertebrates

• Octobot: robot inspired by octopus
• Remote-controlled cyborg moth ‘biobots’ to monitor emergency-response operations
• Tiny flying robots are being built to pollinate crops instead of real bees | VentureBeat | Science | by Dina Spector, Business Insider
• Robotic Bees Designed to Pollinate Crops Making Significant Strides | Singularity Hub
• Termite-Inspired Robots Erect Buildings Based on a Picture
• Robot jellyfish: U.S. Navy-backed researchers developing Robojelly.
• Unmanned RCMP choppers to patrol from sky
• Robot Jellyfish Takes to the Air
• It’s Alive! Artificial-Life Worm Wiggles on Its Own
• Jellyfish Robots
• Israel Creating a Robotic Killer Insects
• Rescue Grasshoppers - Leaping Rescue Robots
• BBC News - Robot ants: mini-machines mimic insect colony
• Tiny swarm robots for microscale manufacturing
• Harvard Scientists Devise Robot Swarm That Can Work Together - WSJ
• Incredibly Small, Magnetically Actuated Robots That Work Together to Create Larger Structures
• Inccredible World of Micro Robots

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Weird Tales. Vol. I by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Cremona Violin; The Fermata; Signor Formica; The Sand-man; The Entail; Arthur's Hall)
Weird Tales, Vol. II by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Doge and Dogess; Master Martin the Cooper; Mademoiselle de Scudéri; Gambler's Luck; Master Johannes Wacht)
Mlle de Scuderi (1819)
The Story of the Hard Nut (1819)
Councillor Krespel (1819)
The Sandman (1817)

Drawings

"13 Films Featuring the Lamest Robots"

Source.

The Player

In full.

Great discussion of Nolan Bushnell's (founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese) early career, touching upon subjects of  consumer electronics and recreational robots, the possible social purpose of video games, the economic links between pizza parlors, midways and video game consuls, and divorced, single parents in the 1980s.

See also:
Androbot on the old robots page. A brief profile of Nolan Bushell's short lived personal robot company, in the eighties.

"Maelzel's Chess-Player" (1836) by Edgar Allan Poe

In full.

R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek, in English Translation (1920)

In full.