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n. (plural of robot English)

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Robots (2005 film)

Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated science fiction dystopian comedy film, produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox and was released on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce. Originally developing a film version of Joyce's book Santa Calls, Wedge and Joyce then decided to develop an original story about a world of robots. Joyce served as producer and production designer for the film. It features the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, and Robin Williams. The film earned $260.7 million on a $75 million budget.

Robots (computer game)

robots is a computer game that was developed for the Unix-based operating system Berkeley Software Distribution by Ken Arnold. In this turn-based game, players are tasked with escaping from robots programmed to pursue and kill them. The BSD Unix version of robots first appeared in the 4.3BSD software release in June 1986.

In May 1985, a very similar game also called robots, written by Allan R. Black, was posted to the Usenet newsgroup net.sources.games.

Robots (2005 video game)

Robots is a platform video game released in 2005 by Eurocom to coincide with film of the same name. A few voice actors reprise their roles from the movie, such as Stanley Tucci. However, Ewan McGregor, the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, was replaced by Jess Harnell in the game.

Robots (anthology)

Robots (ISBN 978-0441013210) is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2005, and includes stories on the theme of "robots" that were originally published from 1985 to 2003, though mostly from the last few years of that range. It is the 32nd book in their anthology series for Ace Books.

Robots (1988 film)

Robots is a 1988 Interactive movie directed by Doug Smith and Kim Takal. Its screenplay, by Peter Olatka, is based on Isaac Asimov's Robot series. It stars Stephen Rowe as Elijah Baley, Brent Barrett as R. Daneel Olivaw, and John Henry Cox as Han Fastolfe.

Robots (song)

"Robots" is the third single from Kate Ryan's fifth studio album Electroshock. It was released in Belgium via iTunes on 12 May 2012. The song's melody is based on the riff of the song Living on Video by Trans-X.

Robots (Asimov anthology)

Robots is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the ninth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in April 1989. The first British edition was issued in paperback by Robinson in 1989.

The book collects seventeen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by Asimov.

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.