Steven Spielberg had planned to make the film adaptation of the novel Robopocalypse with Anne Hathaway this summer, with a date already set for April 24, 2014.

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"The problem with tools - which is what robots are - is that we become dependent on them, " says Wilson, whose new novel Robopocalypse is being made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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