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Robots in literature. Artificial humans and autonomous artificial servants have a long history in human culture, though the term Robot and its modern literary conception as a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence are more fairly recent. The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present ...
"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.
Science fiction. R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, [1] a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). [2] The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové; [3] it introduced the word "robot ...
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler 's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, many science fiction stories have presented different effects of ...
Jessamyn Bonney from Kim Newman 's novel Demon Download (1990). Xris Cyborg from Margaret Weis 's Star of the Guardians series (1990–1998). Angus Thermopyle from Stephen R. Donaldson 's The Gap Cycle (1991–1996). Yod from Marge Piercy 's novel He, She and It (1991).
The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the Robot series, most of which take place in the Foundation universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, I, Robot, was re ...
Reason. " Runaround " is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appears in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990 ...
R. The Rest of the Robots. The Robot and the Man. Robots (Ace anthology) Robots (Asimov anthology) The Ruum.