Two companies are coming together to develop humanoid robots with AI that will be able to perform jobs from manufacturing to healthcare professions. Do you ever find yourself glued to the screen watching a movie like "Terminator" or "Westworld" and think, "Phew! Movies like this are getting closer to becoming a reality with each passing day. CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Let me introduce you to a breakthrough that's happening in the real world, which is both exciting and slightly unsettling. It's a fascinating development that might make you wonder if the line between humans and machines is starting to blur, just like in those movies we love.

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After taking a lengthy absence from sci-fi, South African film director Neill Blomkamp has decided to pit the human race against extraterrestrial forces once again. Created by his new science fiction studio, Oats Studios, his latest project is a short film called Volume 1 -- and surprisingly, it could make its debut on PC gaming platform, Steam. With Hollywood currently afflicted by franchise fever, Blomkamp's latest project aims to let viewers test out an experimental series of entirely new sci-fi movie concepts over the internet. If I sold experimental short films on @steam_games as tests for potential full feature films, would people watch them?

At the CeBIT Global Conferences, he explained what VW is working on and what role artificial intelligence will play for the car of tomorrow. Let's start with what Jungwirth did NOT speak about at the Sakura Stage in Hall 8: alternative engines. Instead, the Volkswagen CDO showed, in fast-forward, how the corporation is digitizing its core business. The key term here was artificial intelligence. "AI is everywhere and it will take on a central role in the car of the future," states Jungwirth.

Every new year brings with it the promise of astonishing video games, but what does 2017 have in store? Will this be a vintage year? From returning legends to innovative new projects, there's an impressive amount of fascinating stuff on the way – and we've tried to cram in everything, including big budget sequels, unexpected offshoots and tiny independent projects. If we've somehow overlooked your highlight of the coming year, let us know in the comments section! Described as a magical realist adventure, 29 is set within a single flat (actually owned by the game's development team), and follows the lives of its inhabitants as they prepare to move out and move on with their lives.

I just got out of a meeting at SRI International, where representatives from both SRI and international banking group BBVA showed off something they've been working on for the past couple of years. Currently, SRI is best known as the research institute where Siri was developed before spinning out into a separate company and eventually being acquired by Apple, where it powers the Siri feature on the iPhone. SRI and BBVA have been collaborating on a new project, Lola, which they're pitching as a successor of sorts to Siri. Bill Mark, SRI's VP of Information and Computer Sciences, calls it "the next generation personal assistant". In this case, that personal assistant technology is being applied to a specific industry -- banking.