Birth of a robot

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• Birth of a robot 🔊

  R.U.R. Metropolis Astounding Stories(Asimov's) Laws of RoboticsR. Daneel Olivaw

  • is_parent Maschinenmensch

    The Maschinenmensch is a unique android created by the scientist Rotwang, born from his obsession with resurrecting his lost love. On Joh Fredersen’s orders, t

    • is_parent Maria's dance 🔒 ·
  • is_parent Astounding Stories ·

    Astounding Stories
  • is_parent R. Daneel Olivaw 🔒

    activated on Aurora 4920 AD / 2950 AE as first humanoid / humaniform ever constructed partnered with Elijah Baley on Earth: catalyst for interworld understandi

    • is_parent Central problem of roboethics 🔒

      Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was

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  • is_parent Three Laws of Robotics 🔒

    1. A robot may not injure 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 exc

    • is_parent Zeroth Law 🔒 ·

      A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
  • is_parent AOTD: Positronic brain 🔒

    Today's "artefact of the day" (AOTS) is the "positronic brain": PB is Asimov’s fictional model of an artificial mind: a dense lattice of positronic pathwa

    • is_parent Ingression of the day: VPU 🔒

      Voluminous Processing Unit (VPU) is a three-dimensional electrophotonic information-processing lattice. Constrained only by most fundamental physical limits (s

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  • is_parent Humanoid precursors 🔒 ·

    robots of the yellow emperor Solomon's "servants of brass" / "djinn bound into metal forms" Pygmalion the mechanical maid the talking head of Sylvester II (&ldq
  • is_parent Three factions 🔒 ·

    Shaper or a Mechanist ? Or a Preservationist, maybe ?
  • is_parent From 'labor' to 'robot' 🔒

    During their summers in spa house "Poniatowski" in Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakia), Karel Čapek worked on a new play featuring artificial beings. Unsatisfied wi

    • is_parent R.U.R.

      1920 play that introduced the word “robot” [from slavic robota ("forced labor") derived from PIE root *orbh- "to change allegiance, to pass from one status to

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    • is_parent Čapek Siblings 🔒 ·

      The Čapek siblings formed a uniquely interdisciplinary circle where painting, prose, and theatre shaped one another. Karel (nominated 7 times for the Nobel pri
  • is_parent Tears in rain 🔒

    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

    • is_parent no comment 🔒 ·
  • is_parent Final quote 🔒 ·

    GPT5.1 response to request to provide an end quote for this session:Alquist’s final realization (near the ending)“Life will not perish! Life begins
  • is_parent for Star Trek fans 🔒 ·

    "We are the Borg . Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adap