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Animated movie with a cute little girl, a talking dog, and a talking humanoid robot
I believe the cartoon you're looking for is Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space aka Pluk, naufragé de l'espace, a 1979 French film.
There's a boy with his girlfriend and dog ...
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Looking for a short story with robot judges
Unlikely to be the correct answer but if you're looking for robot judge stories:
"The Looking Glass of the Law" (1978) short story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. My notes say "A computerized ...
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Was the Terminator the first robot of that nature in science fiction?
Since you are asking Science Fiction in general and not movies specifically, the German Perry Rhodan pulp series featured (first in issue 403 from 1969) the "Vario 500" robot, an egg shaped ...
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Was the Terminator the first robot of that nature in science fiction?
Metropolis. (Novel by Thea von Harbou 1925, Fritz Lang's motion picture 1927, IMDB.)
Everyone is familiar with the poster of a shiny robot female (Technically the false Maria, played by Brigitte Helm) ...
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Was the Terminator the first robot of that nature in science fiction?
There are also the androids of I, Mudd, the Star Trek TOS Season 2 episode that aired November 3, 1967. In an early scene a male android announces to the bridge that he is in control of the ...
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Was the Terminator the first robot of that nature in science fiction?
Philip K. Dick had The Second Variety (a story I found absolutely creepy) was published in 1953.
Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfsbane from 1959 I still think one of their best, and Fred Saberhagen started ...
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Sci-fi book with a part-human, part-machine protagonist who lives for centuries to witness robots gain sentience and wage war on humans
The story you're describing sounds like "The Medusa Chronicles," a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. It's a sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's novella "A Meeting ...
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