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  2. Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot - Wikipedia

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    Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot is a series of children's graphic novels written by Dav Pilkey (best known for his Captain Underpants books) and first seven books illustrated by Martin Ontiveros and all nine books illustrated by Dan Santat. [1] In each book, Ricky Ricotta, a mouse, with the help of his mighty robot, saves the world from an evil ...

  3. List of fictional rodents in literature - Wikipedia

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    Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot: The book's main antagonist. He creates the titular robot in order to destroy the city of Squeakyville, but it refuses to obey his commands. Stuart Little: E. B. White: Stuart Little: A white mouse adopted by the Little family in New York City. Tailoring Mice Beatrix Potter: The Tailor of Gloucester

  4. Robots in literature - Wikipedia

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    The first use of the word "robot" was in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written in 1920 and first performed in Czechoslovakia in 1921, in New York City in 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses ...

  5. 'The Wild Robot' Film Differs From The Novel — And Its ...

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    Like the novel, the movie opens with a storm that leaves a robot stranded on an island inhabited by animals. Rozzum 7143, or Roz for short, is accidentally activated by a group of curious otters.

  6. 'The Wild Robot' director reveals he had 2 different endings ...

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    Brown has written two other books in the series, "The Wild Robot Escapes" and "The Wild Robot Protects." In "Escapes," Roz is sent to work at a dairy farm but continues to plot a way to get back ...

  7. Liar! (short story) - Wikipedia

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    It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story. Although the word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), Asimov's story "Liar!" contains the first recorded use of the word "robotics" according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

  8. Cheburashka - Wikipedia

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    An English-dubbed edition of the first 3 animated films was released in 1987, titled The Adventures of Charlie and Cubby. [26] During the 2018 Armenian protests Cheburashka was used from many protesters as a symbol to mock Serzh Sargsyan due to the similarity on their appearance. Among others, during a protest, a protester masqueraded as ...

  9. Automaton - Wikipedia

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    The word automaton is the latinization of the Ancient Greek automaton (αὐτόματον), which means "acting of one's own will".It was first used by Homer to describe an automatic door opening, [2] or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. [3]