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  2. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history. Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.

  3. Robots in literature - Wikipedia

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    Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses they revolt and overthrow their human creators. However, the play ends on an optimistic note: Robots' artificial biology causes a male and female Robot to fall in love, preserving the spirit of humanity as a result. R. U.

  4. Category:Fictional robots - Wikipedia

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  5. Category:Fictional roboticists - Wikipedia

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  6. Template:Robots by decade/doc - Wikipedia

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    This is a documentation subpage for Template:Robots by decade. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. Creates a category of the form "YYY0s robots", e.g. Category:1930s robots

  7. Artificial intelligence in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The robotics researcher Omar Mubin and colleagues have analysed the engineering mentions of the top 21 fictional robots, based on those in the Carnegie Mellon University hall of fame, and the IMDb list. WALL-E had 20 mentions, followed by HAL 9000 with 15, [a] Star Wars's R2-D2 with 13, and Data with 12; the Terminator (T-800) received only 2 ...

  8. R. Daneel Olivaw - Wikipedia

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    R. Daneel Olivaw is a fictional robot created by Isaac Asimov. 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.

  9. List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction

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    The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...