"Star Wars" figures

Usage examples of robots.

Normally the police roboticists dealt with robots who had been tricked into this or that by con artists skilled in lying to robots and convincing them to obey illegal orders under some carefully designed misapprehension.

Spacers were the descendants of men and women who had fled semi-mythical Earth with their robots when robots were banned there.

With the aid of their robots, the Spacers terraformed fifty worlds and created a culture of great beauty and refinement, where all unpleasant tasks were left to the robots.

It was fear that had caused Earth to cast out robots in the first place.

They worried that robots would take jobs--and the means of making a living--from humans.

The Settlers feared that robots would relieve humanity of its spirit, its will, its ambition, even as they relieved humanity of its burdens.

Their technology, their culture, their worldview, all became static, if not stagnant, The Spacer ideal seemed to be a universe where nothing ever happened, where yesterday and tomorrow were like today, and the robots took care of all the unpleasant details.

Fear and hatred of robots became one of the foundations of Settler policy and philosophy.

For, unbeknownst to themselves, the Infernals and the Settlers on that aptly named world were forced to face a remarkable change in the very nature of robots themselves.

But that was as nothing compared to the idea of the staff robots being ordered to leave.

The observer robots hovered about, recording the images of this scene from every angle.

Maybe the Settlers sneered at robots, but no Spacer world could function for thirty seconds without them.

A human doctor lounged by the hatch of the ambulance, watching the robots do the work.

Alvar stood still and let the robots pass as they carried the victim from the scene of the crime.

After a lifetime of dealing with robots, he still did that, still looked toward the machines as if he could read an emotion or a thought in their expressions or postures.