Among his prophesies that have now arrived are instant coffee, driverless cars, and robots to vacuum our homes.

But Asimov wasn't the only sci-fi visionary, and his predictions seem quaint against some of 2014's actual advances, such as robotic arm transplants, cloned pets, and quantum teleportation. Here is a gallery of the technologies that brought us closer to—or in a few cases fulfilled completely—the promises made in our favorite works of science fiction.