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I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a single publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies.
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.
The title character is an intelligent robot (named after the mechanical man in the Oz books) who originally works as a domestic servant and house-painter.Unlike other robots, whose behavior is constrained by "asimov circuits"—a reference to Isaac Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics, which require robots to protect and serve humans—Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he ...
“The Wild Robot” is both about a robot who goes wild and the wildness of life itself, and it is an animated movie that everyone — both kids and parents — should see. “The Wild Robot ...
The Robot Series is a series of thirty-seven science fiction short stories and six novels created by American writer Isaac Asimov, from 1940 to 1995.The series is set in a world where sentient positronic robots serve a number of purposes in society.
The Wild Robot Protects is a Junior Library Guild book [34] and received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews. [35] [36] Julia Smith, writing for Booklist, highlighted how "Brown smoothly incorporates real-world themes of climate change and human-caused pollution without turning the book into a 'problem novel'". [35]
"The Wild Robot" is based on a popular book series written by Peter Brown. It follows a robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) who, after ending up on an island inhabited by wildlife, learns ...
The robots in Asimov's stories, being Asenion robots, are incapable of knowingly violating the Three Laws but, in principle, a robot in science fiction or in the real world could be non-Asenion. "Asenion" is a misspelling of the name Asimov which was made by an editor of the magazine Planet Stories. [ 27 ]