WWI’s Amateur Hour Death Bot Brigade

WWI's Amateur Hour Death Bot Brigade

John Ptak recently posted an interesting 1916 cover from Illustrated World magazine showing the futuristic "Electric Titan" robot fighter. Though rarely in humanoid robot form, the multi-soldier death machine of tomorrow was a surprisingly common idea during World War I. Why so outlandish? Because the military predictions of the time were rarely made by the actual military.

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The Robot Tanks of WWII, Both Real and Imagined

The Robot Tanks of WWII, Both Real and Imagined

In the mid-1930s, sci-fi legend Hugo Gernsback predicted that manned flame tanks would one day become a reality. A decade later, Gernsback would revisit his prediction with one important twist—the flame tanks of tomorrow would drive themselves.

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