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Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
The "R" initial in his name stands for "robot," a naming convention in Asimov's future society in which all robot names start with the initial R to differentiate them from humans, whom they often resemble. He is a major character in the Robot series, as well as having important roles in the prequels and sequels to the original Foundation Trilogy.
In the U.S. cartoon line, the Autobots were the descendants of a line of robots created as consumer goods by the Quintessons; the Decepticons, are descended instead from robots designed as military hardware. Other terms for the Autobots are Autorobot (in Italy), Autoboterna (in Sweden), Kibery (in Ukraine), and Robotrikim (in Israel).
Gynoids are humanoid robots that are gendered to be perceived as feminine or to mimic the bodily appearance of female sex humans. They appear widely in science fiction film and art. They are also known as female androids, female robots or fembots, although some media have used other terms such as robotess, cyberdoll or "skin-job".
Dr. Claire Deller (I, Robot and other stories by Isaac Asimov) – chief robot genius of San Diego Robots and Mechanical Men; Joseph Cavor (The First Men in the Moon) – inventor of the "Cavorite" anti-gravity material; Captain Hagbard Celine (Illuminatus trilogy) – fights the Illuminati from his submarine and with his computer, both ...
U9-C4 is a timid droid sent on a mission with D-Squad, an all-droid special unit in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, [28] C1-10P (nicknamed "Chopper") is an oft-repaired, "outmoded" astromech who is one of the main characters of Star Wars Rebels, [29] and BB-8 is the astromech droid of X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens.
The following is a list of characters in the anime-influenced television show Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, created by Ciro Nieli. [1] The series follows five cyborg monkeys and the human boy Chiro, who awakens them and leads them in protecting the planet of Shuggazoom and the universe from evil.
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