A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own.
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1970s story: man living alone with robot servants on an estate invaded by hoodlums
The setting is during or after the fall of social order, somewhere in England. An old man is holed up on an estate, his only company a robot butler and other robotic assistants. The house is invaded ...
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Brains in combat chassis
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this book. One main part was the earth had been invaded and people were volunteering for their brains to be wired into large robots/ combat chassis and ...
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Futurama: First Robot
Who was the first robot that still exists in working form? Ignoring robots for whom:
No Date Of Manufacture was mentioned or implied (by existing at a particular early time).
Got to where they are ...
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Identify this short story: Malfunctioning robot destroys anything that moves, man is injured by robot, shines light on robot
Ok, I need your help. When I was young, I was reading some random book of short stories. I think the book was from 1960's. I can't remember the book name or the stories name.
But the story was ...
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Man whose job is to destroy broken robots on Mars
Could anyone help me please. I am looking for a short story where the setting is on Mars, protagonist a human waste disposal worker. His job is to shovel broken down robots into the furnace and they ...
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Trying to find An anime I watched in the late 80s featuring sentinels and a gun (i think)
All I recall is the protagonists may have been kids (perhaps a boy and a girl). I seem to recall them either crash landing on an unknown planet, and constantly trying to outrun large spherical ...
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When did the first back in time Time Traveling Robot appear in the real world?
Which work of literature, film, or TV (or radio) program was the first to feature a sentient robot from the future that traveled back in time?
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Anime about a cop with a robot partner and a rampaging tank
I have been searching for this for a few weeks and I am hoping that you guys can help me out.
I know that what I watched was a movie I am not sure if the story was self contained within the story ...
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Story Identification: 1980s series about four characters who escape a post-apocalyptic city in a bubble
From what I remember the animation style was quite similar to The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I have a feeling it was a Japanese/French collaboration.
There was a city in a bubble, somewhat ...
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Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room
Can't recall what any of the title would be or who the author was. But the book involved the main character meeting a rich genius with a private island. He has an AI as his central computer, and it ...
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What Sci-Fi book about robot domination is this
Looking for help to find a book I read maybe 30 years ago.
the main thread was about robots eventually becoming in control of man. There is a central leader robot who comes to power. Key fact I recall ...
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Synthezoid vs Android
The Vision is always described as a Synthezoid, however I can't find any description of what that is other than a "A special type of android empowered by synthesizing energy". Is there any real ...
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Identify an anime series with combining robots
It is a mecha anime. I believe 4 or 5 robots combine into 1 giant robot. There are 2 male and 3 female pilots. one of the guys, the red head, sister has disappeared. the head of the team is this guy ...
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What is the earliest depiction of realistic (hard sci-fi) giant humanoid mechas or robots?
The usual depiction of giant humanoid mecha/robots is very unrealistic. They disregard the square/cube law, inertia, to just name a few violations of the rules of physics.
The most realistic ...
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Title of a time travel movie involving a boy in alien armour and a girl?
So years ago I saw this move with time travel but I didn't watch it from the very beginning.
I really would appreciate finding out the title of this movie.
Some random facts from this movie (I'm not ...
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How could Norby transport safely with Marcel?
In "Norby and the Queen's Necklace", Norby and his owner are taken back to the time of the French Revolution and end up escaping the Bastille. They end up meeting Marcel and then violate all sorts of ...
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Why does Larry 3000 refer to George Washington as the President in 1778? [closed]
In Time Squad, Larry 3000 and the rest of the team refer to George Washington as the President in the year 1778, but he was not actually the President until 1789. I would expect that Larry, being a ...
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Were there ever any depictions of non-android robots in any Star Trek episode or movie? [duplicate]
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Why are there so few robots in Star Trek?
I would say that the relative lack of onscreen robots had to do with show budgets, but even some of the cheesiest science ...
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Short story pre 1990 involving different classes of machines confused without man. Man arrives at end
The short story I'm looking for was published before 1990 but was more likely a 1950's to 70's
publication. Machines of different classes and intelligence such as diggers and combine harvesters are ...
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Does “Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time” series violate the grandfather paradox?
As anyone who is familiar with the Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series by William F. Wu is already aware, the Mojave Center Governor does not realize that sending his component parts backwards ...
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Why did John Henry need a Terminator chip?
Spoiler for the last episode (Season 2 Episode 22: Born to run) of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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Help in identifying a sci-fi movie about some mechanical beings traveling back in time to murder people
I remember when I was much younger I watched a video with some odd robotic teenagers who travel back in time and meet the grim reaper (like from Scream) in hell or similar. I wish I could remember ...
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How many different robots were sent back in time in the entire Terminator franchise?
How many different robots (physical units, NOT model types) were sent back in time in the entire Terminator franchise?
The count should encompass ALL franchise works, not just the movies.
While I'm ...
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The first robot (android) with total human appearance [closed]
The earliest movie android I can remember is the Yul Brynner character from Westworld. Are there any earlier examples? Please exclude those robots that are clearly distinguishable from human (unless ...
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Why did they build a Hedonismbot?
He was supposedly built out of gold with taxpayers money. Now he is wealthy and has his own servant. What was Hedonismbot's original purpose?
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Are the 4th and 5th extensions to the 3 Laws of Robotics validated by Asimov?
Wikipedia cites extensions by other authors to the canonical "Three laws" as follows
There are two Fourth Laws written by authors other than Asimov. The
1974 Lyuben Dilov novel Icarus's Way ...
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Do the 3 laws protect animals?
Major Stackings made a comment in chat about how the demolition bot seen in the movie hates cats.
Do the 3 laws also protect animals from the deadly whims of robots?
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Whats the new fuel replacing dark matter? [duplicate]
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What is the current main source of power in Futurama?
So in benders game dark matter becomes worthless and the professor use the niblonins(how ever it is spelled) to ...
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How big was the planet killer from “The Doomsday Machine” episode?
I tried to look it up, but all I can find is Commodore Deckers description of the planet killer:
"Miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships,"
That's pretty big, but how big ...
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Do the Machines in “The Matrix” Adhere to the Three Laws of Robotics?
In the "real world" of the Matrix, do the machines follow Asimov's Three Rules? Were they even programmed with them?
EDIT: I realize that killing people goes against the 1st law, but by keeping ...
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Was Bender programmed to be evil?
Bender, on Futurama, is a robot. He was built and programmed by Mom Corp. When he popped off the assembly line, was he programmed to be evil (i.e. his adorably greedy, misanthropic self), or was ...
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Trying to find the title of an old movie about a robot like WALL-E
I saw this movie when I was a kid.
At the end of the movie, the robot was left behind in a broken space ship taking care of the plants.
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Why are droids tortured?
Bitmask took this photo while attending the Star Wars Identities Exhibition :
I remember this scene from one of the original trilogy movies. I also remember the droid was "screaming" as it was ...
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How is Bender able to return to the exact point in spacetime after travelling thousands of years into the past?
In the first Futurama movie "Bender's Big Score", Bender travels back in time to ancient Egypt in order to steal gold and other expensive valuables from pharaoahs. A few seconds later, Bender is seen ...
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How do futurama robots acquire names? [duplicate]
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Are there more bending units called Bender?
Bender is a bending robot. The other Bending Robots (model #22) Flexo and Billy West have different names.
What makes Bender ...
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Was Bender originally a slave?
Bender Bending Rodríguez is a Robot, he was built as Bending Unit 22.
But what was he built for? I mean, did Mom's Friendly Robot Company sell him to another organization for profit? This is what a ...
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Why doesn't Bender go on killing sprees more often?
Bender pretty frequently says things that show his disdain for humans (e.g. "hey sexy mama, want to kill all humans?"). And yet the only time I can recall him even pretending to kill all humans was ...
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How long had Box been running amok when Logan discovered him?
Originally, in Logan's Run, the killer robot "Box" was programed to freeze and store sea food. How long had the abandoned "Box" been been running amok when encountered by Logan 5 and Jessica 6 in the ...
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Do all terminators have to travel back in time naked? [duplicate]
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Nude time travel in Terminator Universe
In the first Terminator film, the T-800 travels back in time completely naked. See Nude time travel in Terminator Universe for ...
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Name of short story told from perspective of mechanical alien?
I seem to remember a short story I read once that had an alien protagonist on a metallic world (trees with solar panels, full metallic ecosystem, etc). It was sort of mechanical/robotic, had a 'wife' ...
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How did Garth manage to avoid the Grandfather Paradox?
In Cyborg 2087, Garth travels back in time and ends up preventing his own existence, a prime example of the Grandfather Paradox in action. If that's the case, how was he able to even go back in time ...
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Why didn't the T-1000 travel farther back in time?
I still don't understand why the T-1000 went back in time to well after the original T-800's attempt at assassinating Sarah Connor. Why didn't it just get sent back to right after this failed attempt?
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How did the T-1000 avoid the bootstrap paradox?
I have watched Terminator 2 several times now, but there is one major problem with it that has been bothering me. The Terminator* was sent back in time to (unsuccessfully) assassinate Sarah Connor, ...
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A 1950/60s story about time-traveling robots - please help identify
OK, I'm going to combine my hate of time-traveling robot questions with my distaste for story identification questions, and try to leverage all'y'all's wisdom to help me remember a story about time ...
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Old sci-fi short story about robots ``protecting'' mankind
I have a memory about an old science-fiction short story about robots entering into contracts with humans to protect them. Their inventor (importer?) is the last holdout because the protection is so ...
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Identify series of books - collecting memories from the dead (robots and humans battle)
Years ago, I read a series of books about humans trying to survive in a universe being flooded with robots. The first book I read started on a planet where people were scouting, while they had to ...
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What's the difference between cyborgs and androids?
On Star Trek, Commander Data is not human, he's an android, not a cyborg. I thought cyborgs looked human (like terminator) but droids looked more robot than human (like C3PO).
Is this an official ...
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Robot Cloning story, novel, or even a movie!
I am searching for a sci-fi story, novel, or even a movie that talks about the robot cloning concept. What made me search for it is that I want to name a programming project of mine with a name of a ...
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What was the most important thing of all that Hari Seldon wished to tell Daneel?
In Asimov's Forward the Foundation Hari Seldon's last encounter with the robot Daneel Olivaw is below:
Seldon stood there for a few minutes after Daneel had gone, lost in thought. Suddenly he ...
