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Chibi-Robo, a tiny robot housekeeper that is the main playable character in the game of the same name; Mike, a "karaoke robot" from WarioWare: Touched!; its creator, Dr. Crygor used him as a janitor; Medabots; Several Protoss units from StarCraft are robotic. The various classes of Forerunner Sentinels from Halo; Wheatley from Portal 2
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.
Some characters appear in more than one of the stories, and the manufacturer of the robots is often identified as the (fictional) corporation U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. The Complete Robot contains most of Asimov's robot short stories. Missing ones were either written after its publication or formed the text connecting the stories in I, Robot.
Among NCP's creations in the books are dipolar computers, a number of androids and cyborgs (namely the Guardians of the beams, including Shardik the Bear and Maturin the Turtle), Nigel the housekeeping robot at Fedic, Stuttering Bill (one of the few robots the Ka-Tet encounter that is not hostile and actually aids them in their quest), Andy the ...
While the Jatravartids were mentioned in the books, the character of Humma Kavula was created by Adams for the 2005 movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Quoting Robbie Stamp: "All the substantive new ideas in the movie, Humma, the Point of View Gun and the "paddle slapping sequence" on Vogsphere are brand new Douglas ideas written ...
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas from 1942 to 1950, and subsequently in three collections, for nearly thirty years the series was a trilogy: Foundation (1951); Foundation and Empire (1952); and Second Foundation (1953).
Rattleballs (character) Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot; Ro-Busters; ROB 344–66/IIIa; Robbi (character) Robby the Robot; Robear Berbils; Robo Machine; RoboBlitz; Robot AL-76 Goes Astray; Robot Archie; Robot Detective; Robot Jox; Robot Unicorn Attack; Roderick (novel) Rog-2000; Rosie the Robot Maid; Rover (The Prisoner)
The "R" initial in his name stands for "Robot," a naming convention in Asimov's future society during Earth's early period of space colonization. Daneel is introduced in The Caves of Steel, a serialized story published in Galaxy Science Fiction from October to December 1953. The full story was published by Doubleday as a hardcover book in 1954. [1]