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Robot
- The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages.
- a mechanism that can move automatically
- a virtual or mechanical artificial agent
What are they?
- Are they sapient?
- If souls exist do they have them?
- Can they earn them if they don't?
Where are they from?
Do they Have Bodies?
How were they built?
How Smart are they?
Why were they created?
What do they do?
Are they immortal?
Examples:
- Isaac Asimov's robots had the positronic brain and the Three Rules; up until him all robots were chaotic and turned on their masters.
- A few of Asimov's bots revolted anyway. He spent a lot of time thinking about what could go wrong with the Three Laws.
- Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy includes an army of Robots that are inhabited by the personalities of dead people who previously uploaded themselves to a living habitats nueral strata.
- Futurama's robots run the full spectrum, which they're free to do as a comedy.
- Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex: Bioroids and Tachikomas.
- Superman's legion of Robot Me types
- Victor Von-Doom's legion of Robot Me types
- Star Control has several types, there's the Androsynth (who are actually genetically engineered clones of humans who revolted and got eaten by Eldritch Abominations) the Slylandro Probes, who are only pre-programmed VonNeumannMachines, the Mycon (biological terraformers gone Ax Crazy) and the Chmmr, the combination of alien robots and living crystals.
- Transformers: self-evolved sentient mechanical beings.
- Spider-Man: Doc Ock's Combat Tentacles are stated to have AI's and yet are permanently attached to him.
- Star Trek The Next Generation: Data
- Star Wars: C3PO and R2D2.
- There were a lot of robot "extras" in the background of most shots.
- Gunnerkrigg Court has a variety of robots that run on a combination of science and magic.
- Emergency Exit has a couch robot. If you thought he was kidding... so did everyone else.
- Its affiliate Parallel Dementia has a sentient robot named Reginald. He appears independent, but when he's getting his head reattached he says things that indicate much of his behavior is performed by running scripts.
- Ctrl Alt Del has Zeke, a robot made out of an XBOX by the resident Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence features many humanoid robots (some intact and some not), including one notable example who has been programmed to love.
- In Syberia duology, the robots are Ridiculously Human Clockwork Creatures created by a single man who also imbibed them with souls. Oh, and "robot" is a no-no word, it's "automatons", thank you very much.
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