...R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by KAREL CAPEK Translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair Robots ... ...orld! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of the Robots! March! CHARACTERS HARRY DOMIN SULLA MARIUS HELENA GLORY DR. GALL M... ...EMEIER MR. ALQUIST CONSUL BUSMAN NANA RADIUS A SERVANT HELENA PRIMUS FIRST ROBOT SECOND ROBOT THIRD ROBOT FOURTH ROBOT ACT I Central office of the fa... ...T FOURTH ROBOT ACT I Central office of the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Entrance on the right. The windows on the front wall look out on t... ... railroad routes. On the right- hand wall are fastened printed placards. ("Robot's Cheapest Labor," etc.) In contrast to these wall fittings, the fl... ...attention to the fact that the vessel was unsuitable for the transport of Robots, and we are therefore not responsible for spoiled freight. We beg t... ...responsible for spoiled freight. We beg to remain for Rossum's Universal Robots. Yours truly." (SULLA, who has sat motionless during dictation, now ... ...w York, U.S.A. "We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for five thousand Robots. As you are sending your own vessel, please dispatch as cargo equal... ...payment of the amount due to us. We beg to remain, for Rossum's Universal Robots. Yours truly." (SULLA repeats the rapid typing) Ready? SULLA Yes. D...

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...Renegade Robot: It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of tro...

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...aster Mystery follows agent Locke through many pitfalls, in true serial fashion, as he is tasked with uncovering a band of thugs and a peculiar metal robot (reportedly the first robot in film) with a brain, called an automaton, which has been robbing potential inventors of their patent rights. All in good fun by today's standards, we find our hero escaping a straightjacket...

...in its sights. The enemy soldiers 32 Mike Saxton began to return fre. As robotic as they seemed, she was a small target on a fast moving motorcycle... ...r ques- tioned her. They followed their orders precisely, as if they were robots. Once they cleared out of the room, Jade grabbed the com. “ Atention... ...eing, and they can be defeated.” The commotion began anew. “They might be robots or something.” “I heard they’re genetically engineered clones.” 137... ...hey have chips implanted in their brains. It efectively makes them living robots,” Talbot continued. The tall man gave a glance to his companions who... ... Since the Seekers were programmed via the spider-chip, they were given a robot-like personality; they most likely only spoke when absolutely necess... ...ers that were atending to mediocre tasks. Looking at them, they moved as robots and remained expressionless. “So, it is true that the Seekers aren’... ...ll servos and motors. “Geeze, this is more than armor. It’s some kind of robotic enhancement exo-skeleton,” Josh commented. Vincent shook his head. ... ...roying their identity, who they are, and turning them into fesh and blood robots!” The scientist looked up at her. “That’s correct. That is what I w... ...r calling as a surgeon.” Andromeda blushed. She removed the chip from the robotic “snake” using a pair of tweezers and placed it on a small glass d...

...The Department of Defense (DOD) anticipates the realization of biomimetic bird and two-inch, insect-sized systems within the 2015–47 period. Although robot systems of one millimeter or smaller are not explicitly specified in current DOD and Air Force technology road maps, the technological aims towards this size can be clearly inferred from official documents. This researc...

...d Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has changed to include a robot from the future Nicholas looses all hope, but this robot may be just what he needs to win his freedom. – The Ego Machine was first published in the May, 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Ma...

...A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen after that, as only he can....

... VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupt... ... conceive of an indestructible thing - be it unicellular or multicellular, alive or robotic, composed of independent individuals or acting in perfec... ...eath and the human condition - read this Death, Meaning, and Identity Return I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics The movie "I, Robot" is a m... ...at Isaac Asimov, the late Sci-fi writer (and scientist) invented the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through i... ...e a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except wher... ...y human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection ... ...plemented and to avoid their interpretation in a potentially dangerous manner, the robots in which they are embedded must be equipped with reasonab... ...ad to intractable paradoxes (experienced as a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive fu... ...icts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines), as all robots are. Godel pointed at one such self destructive paradox i...

...born, wouldn’t you agree that it’s just as alive? I’ve built quite a few "robots", and every time I string wires together, I am forcibly reminded th... ...ow you will. In every bad movie and in every projection toward the future, robots and artificial intelligences are portrayed as having originally bee... ...these problems, but we're not even close to it being an issue. No one has robot house servants, this is technology that won't be available to me, an... ...enerally used as tools is “the opening of an era in which human beings and robots can co-exist”. Now maybe it's just me, seeing this trend, here – bu... ...,” you're probably saying to yourself. “We do have researchers developing robots to serve us around the house; I'll grant you that. But it can't be ... ..., it can't. After all... we're not that far along in our progress. Right? Robot servants alone don't make a lesson.” Maybe not. But before you move o...

... that one asks oneself. But then we stifl e them within us and live like robots. 3 5 imagine being a newborn baby, your first sensation that so...

... dup ă un timp, se transform ă în aparat urinar. ∗ Dup ă ce a inventat un robot care s ă imite omul, a început s ă imite robotul. ∗ De şi nu se pu...

...ste 95 şef de departament Saeid). Tipii de la catedrele de Computere, Robotic ă, Cibernetic ă, Inginerie se joac ă cu milioanele de dolari ob ţi... ...ontrol Autonom Ingineresc din Albuquerque. Într-un film a ar ătat cum un robot detecteaz ă şi mut ă singur (ne-teleghidat) un obiect dintr-o pozi ţ... ...l, dar a generat multe conferin ţe interna ţionale. Am devenit un robot: dup ă ore în ma şin ă, alerg pe autostr ăzi, program dup ă program,...

... security agencies. Both men and women similarly attired, monolithically unsmiling, robotically efficient. It gave me the chills. Add to that t... ...s or flounders or gets flustered, Himmler. He reminds me of a Fritz Lang industrial robot. “May 1933, Herr Reichsfuehrer, I am certain of it now.”...

...s in our world, the world itself and all its inhabitants, except man, are robots operated by their animal nature, rather than creatures with free wil... ... Rabbi Shimon and his son Elazar are angels (spiritual forces, similar to robots or draft animals in our world), whose task is to help the souls to ...

...ese parties, you’d think we either didn’t exist or could be easily replaced with mindless robots.” She smirked, “You know like Fessel.” They both br...

... She is just an object of the father when she is very young, then the working robot of her husband (includes child-bearing, taking care of family, h...

...de Still Waters is a gentle story that shows us a man who really wants to get away from it all ... sitting on a rock in the asteroid belt with only a robot for a friend. No girls allowed! A poignant and unsettling story to say the least....

... something, and operate accord- ingly. In that sense, we are nothing more than robots. T H E K A B B A L A H E X P E R I E N C E 52 Some people want... ...m spare parts? Does that mean that it will be pos- sible to build a biological robot that will attain the spiritual world and a soul? A: You can repl... ...bodies of leaders of this world. All of these people, good or bad, are simply robots in the hands of the Creator to serve His purpose in this world.... ...I S A GA M E A N D W E A R E A L L T OY S Q: How do you relate to computerized robots and their reactions to humans? A: Believe me, I don’t have any... ... We Are All Toys ................................................... 401 Human Robots In Kabbalah .......................................................

... mechanical act of carrying out the Creator’s Will. Just as the body acts as a robot, carrying out the Creator’s Will without understanding the reason... ...ory and repellent—even to non-believers. This concept presents human beings as robots in the hands of blind nature (predetermined qualities of charact...

...erns us and every little in- sect in our world, then how are we different from robots? A: If we use Kabbalah to change our inner properties, we also ... ...ator by changing the form (intent) of the will to receive. An angel is like a robot that performs a certain task in the spiri- tual world. It merely ...