The beginning of the end has come for Juan and Pedro in the fields of California, where crack scientists and engineers are developing various robots equipped with human-like digits, digital maps and other such sci-fi zaniness that’ll some day...

It’s nothing short of amazing what technology can achieve these days. Take, for example, the news that a smirking and witty Fidel Castro made his first TV appearance in four months this past Sunday. Rather than end up in...