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Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
Fictional computers may be depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. Fictional computers may be referred to with a made-up manufacturer's brand name and model number or a nickname. This is a list of computers or fictional artificial intelligences that have appeared in notable works of fiction. The ...
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Rover, Lunar Jim's Robot dog in the children's animation series of the same name. Runner, a rather large robot in the shape of a dog, pet and loyal friend of Grubb, from the PC role-playing video game Septerra Core. Rush and Treble from the Mega Man classic series; Rusty, from the 1960s Swift comic strip "The Phantom Patrol".
Artificial intelligence names Computer or program Robot or android Ref 1927 Metropolis: Germany Maria's robot double [1] 1934 Der Herr der Welt (i.e. Master of the World) Germany Überroboter / Kampfmaschine (i.e. fighting machine), working-robots 1935 Loss of Sensation: USSR: 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still: USA Gort [1] 1957 The Invisible ...
Gynoids are humanoid robots that are gendered to be perceived as feminine or to mimic the bodily appearance of female sex humans. They appear widely in science fiction film and art. They are also known as female androids, female robots or fembots, although some media have used other terms such as robotess, cyberdoll or "skin-job".
Waldo, a short story by Robert Heinlein, that gave its name to a popular nickname for remote manipulators. Walking robot, a robot capable of locomotion by walking. Owing to the difficulties of balance, two-legged walking robots have so far been rare and most walking robots have used insect-like multilegged walking gaits.