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Birth of a robot

🌐 public · created AE550927 (27.09.2025) · by DDH · open in the standard editor view · ▶ open as narrated presentation

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

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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 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
        • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·
          In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
    • 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
        • 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
    • 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 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 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