Questions tagged [robots]
For questions about robots and their use in a specific work of science-fiction or fantasy; use this tag in conjunction with the specific work in question, e.g. [star-wars]. Also for use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag. Use [robot-series] for the series of stories and novels by Isaac Asimov.
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Short story from the 1930’s through mid 1950’s with a plot that includes robots learning how to replicate independently of humans?
I'm trying to identify a short story about robots learning how to replicate independently of humans.
It was included in a textbook at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia during the early to mid 1950’s, ...
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Cartoon robot with a round head that transformed bigger with tubular horns when angry or in combat
I'm trying to identify a cartoon where there was a small and cute robot with a round, normal head like that white robot in Wall-E (Eve), but then, to fight or maybe when it got angry, it used to get a ...
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Older movie that has a girl that’s a robot, and she ends up dying
I don’t really remember much of this movie; I watched it when I was really young. I only remember that it was an older-looking camera quality, and a girl was a robot. I don’t think anyone knew, except ...
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Do the claws in Second Variety communicate wirelessly?
In Second Variety (Philip K. Dick's 1953 novelette) do we know if the claws/Varieties communicate with each other wirelessly, or by any other secret communication?
Voice radio communication and remote ...
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TV program where real actors interact with 2-Dimensional characters
Trying to remember a sci-fi/space TV program that I remember seeing sometime in the early 1980s in the UK
The show was different as it involved real actors, interacting with very basic two dimensional ...
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Man comes down with plague while waiting for his reclusive host
Short story, part of an anthology I read in the '90s. It's fairly likely that the other stories featured the same protagonist. What I remember of the style suggests it might have been aimed at a teen ...
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What was the first movie on robots taking over the world?
With the advent of AI, we are all the more interested in what AI can do or cannot do.
Usually, cinema attempts to mirror human endeavors and the society in general.
I am particularly interested in ...
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Short story about a robot servant who leads a blind woman
I read this online after 2010. From the style it seemed to have been written much earlier, probably before 1950.
A rich man buys a new advanced robot to guide his blind, 18 year old daughter and ...
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Old Sci-fi story about robot wardens and revived humans
I’m trying to find the title of a short story about a low-technology society, ruled by a hooded mysterious priest/warder caste, some in wheelchairs (that can fly), who impose impossibly high standards ...
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Rastafarian homeless man is actually a robot
I'm trying to remember a movie with a robot vs humanity theme. There is one character, a rastafarian looking man living in a camp, who is anti-robot but is later revealed to be a robot. I don't know ...
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Robots revive a man in a box after the end of Earth
The story, as best I remember, is that an alien species (robotic) visits Earth. They discover a box in orbit around Earth with a human and revive him into a robot. He wants to visit Earth, which they ...
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Film about a woman who is murdered and rebuilt as a cyborg
Saw a film my family recorded in the 90’s about a woman who is murdered by a man and left in a ditch, she’s rebuilt as a cyborg, who works as a spy. Remember scenes including her sitting for a mirror, ...
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Search for old robot sci-fi story about an astronaut on a planet, with a robot guarding his camp
I am searching for an old sci-fi story that is about an astronaut on a planet, with a robot guarding his camp.
Unfortunately the robot doesn’t let him back in the camp.
At the end he does it with a ...
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70s/80s Scifi movie identification with robot and amnesia protag
It's an action movie where the protagonists are being pursued by either a robot or a guy in a tech suit. One of its arms is a gun/cannon.
There is one scene I can remember clearly. The protagonist and ...
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Looking for a short story about a robot that can only say "Yes, and?"?
I remember reading a while ago a story about a team of scientists building an intelligent robot, but they could only program it to say one word.
They need to show the robot off to investors, so the ...
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