SIMPLE AND SOPHISTICATED SILHOUETTES FOR SURVIVAL SHOOTING. Many of today's common silhouette targets can trace their roots to police training and qualification courses. Some of the early examples depict a person with one hand behind his back. Just why is anyone's guess,...

Fanfare for the increasingly common man-shaped robot Robotics: Humanoid robots are becoming ever more advanced. Are the firms making them just interested in publicity, or are they chasing a new market? FIRST came Asimo, Honda's childlike robot, which was introduced to...

["The Humanoids"] deals, essentially, with the conflict that began when the wheel and the lever were invented: the battle between men and machines. Mr. Williamson's new version of the fight is waged on a galactic scale, with weapons and terms that may tax the imaginations even of the most ardent s-f readers. The setting is a planet far removed from earth. An interplanetary war is about to break out and the worlds are desperately arming. Suddenly the Humanoids appear from space, offering...

Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids" is literally out of this world. His field of operations are planets within 100 light-years of the earth, 100 centuries after Hiroshima. His hero, a beleaguered physicist, preparing for interplanetary war with a planet-destroying projectile, has to cope with Humanoids—super-robots who "serve, obey and guard man from harm" with all sorts of super gadgets including Euphoride, a drug inducing forgetfulness. The scientist's strugg...

Williamson's humanoids [in "The Humanoid Touch"] are perfect robots programmed "to serve and obey and guard men from harm." This they do all over the galaxy with tyrannical efficiency…. The humanoids were the subject of Williamson's most famous novel, and he returns to them now for this sequel, in which the last free outpost is found and invaded by the machines and one young man faces this implacable foe. Anyone familiar with the original humanoids stories wi...