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Positronic is a manufacturing company based in Springfield, Missouri. The company manufactures and supplies electronic connectors that are utilized in a variety of industries worldwide including military , aerospace , telecommunications , medical , industrial and test equipment among others.
A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It functions as a central processing unit (CPU) for robots , and, in some unspecified way, provides them with a form of consciousness recognizable to humans .
By October 1966, he had founded Positronic Industries in Springfield, Missouri and initially, the company manufactured electronic components and connectors for the aerospace industry. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Eight years later, Positronic moved to Rogersville, Missouri , and in the following years, it progressed and managed three expansions.
The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by American writers Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man".. It is about a robot that begins to display characteristics, such as creativity, traditionally the province of humans; the robot is ultimately declared an official human being.
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]
Blaine the Train (and the Pain) is a robot that has a brain designed from "positronic computers", as do the rest of the robots left over from the lost "old people". The Tick-Tock man interrogates Jake about his knowledge of Positronic Computers, which are stacked by the hundreds, unresponsive, below them.
This story is retro-set within Asimov's Foundation universe, which also includes his earlier Susan Calvin positronic robot tales. It is clearly set centuries prior to the events of his novella "Mother Earth" and the novel The Caves of Steel, during a period in which the Spacer worlds have yet to turn against the people of the Earth, and in which the U.S. Robots corporation is still active.
Bicentennial Man (1999), film directed by Chris Columbus, based on novelette "The Bicentennial Man" and on novel The Positronic Man; I, Robot (2004), film directed by Alex Proyas, based on ideas of short stories of the Robot series; The Apple TV adaptation of the Foundation books contains several references to its shared universe with the ...