In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Thus, while Pierre and the robot are both doing the same thing, only Pierre has the inner conscious experience.

Some years later the National Geographic Society created a similar robot which drilled a small hole in the southern door, only to find another larger door behind it.

Superman manages to destroy the Kryptonite-powered ship and recover the crystal-simultaneously confronting Lex with the fact that, despite his claims that Superman has been ' holding him back ' from helping humanity, the only thing he accomplished with Superman being absent for a year was to find a large robot that he used to try to destroy everything -, but Lex manages to escape custody yet again.

It contributed the word ' robot ' not only to English but, through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written.

Suspended takes a novel approach in its game mechanics ; rather than being free to move about and interact with the game world directly, the player's character spends the entire game in a state of suspended animation ( hence the title ) and can only interact by controlling the actions of a number of robot surrogates.

Corry is delighted, until he learns that there is only room for 15 pounds of luggage, far too little for his robot companion, as there are seven other passengers on the ship from other asteroids.

As the men die, Wickwire ( who is actually a robot that has been off for 200 years and only turns on when he's needed, such as to dust ) apologizes, saying that he needs to ensure the peaceful tranquility of the cemetery because men are incapable of peace.

The robot is primarily packaged in a single plastic base component and comprises additional bolt-on plastic parts that are present for aesthetic purposes only ( i. e. the arms do not function ).

For a given robot the only parameters necessary to completely locate the end effector ( gripper, welding torch, etc.

In the episode " Sibling Tsunami " of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character replied, " The usual, life, the universe, everything " a reference not only to Marvin, but the " Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything " a central tenet of the series ' storyline ( as well as the title of the third book ).

The robot can only be controlled by the first voice recorded in his electronic brain ; however, he first needs to be charged up by atomic energy.

The evolution was controlled by " robot wars ", and the only form that survived were swarms of minuscule, insect-like micromachines.

The only sentient being remaining in the Solar system is robot Daneel Olivaw, who resides in a small station on the moon, overseeing the progress of a humanity now spread throughout the galaxy.

Baley's and Olivaw's friendship grows with each novel, thus leading to Olivaw being the only robot to ever set foot on a Settler world when Elijah Baley specifically asks to see him on his deathbed.

Hari Seldon's wife Dors Venabili is the only one of Olivaw's humanoid robot allies to be shown in the books.

Placing the robotic camera in a perspective that allows intuitive control is a recent technique that although based in Science Fiction ( Robert A. Heinlein's Waldo 1942 ) has not been fruitful as the speed, resolution and bandwidth have only recently been adequate to the task of being able to control the robot camera in a meaningful way.

This future Batcave of Batman Beyond includes not only replicas of Batman's most famous enemies ( both as wax dummies and robot combat trainers ), but also a display case with the many permutations of costumes of Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, and Batman himself.

* In Red vs Blue, when the character Church is thrown back in time in Episode 50, he tries to prevent certain things from happening, in the process leading to everything becoming the way it was: kicking dirt on a switch hoping it to be replaced, instead it was kept and later got stuck ; giving his captain painkillers to prevent a heart attack, but killing him because the captain is allergic to aspirin ; trying to make the tank not kill him by disabling the friendly-fire protocol, which later proves his death ; telling the tank and robot that they should not leave and build a robot army, thereby giving them the idea to do it ; trying to shoot O ' Malley with the rocket launcher only to shoot Tucker because of the launcher's highly defective targeting system and his inability to aim.

Crow holds the distinction of being the only SOL robot who ever visited Deep 13 ( although Tom Servo and Gypsy once visited the alternate-earth version ): In episode 615, Kitten with a Whip, he slid down the Umbilicus in an attempt to bring the SOL back to Earth, only to be frightened back up by Dr. Forrester ( who then had Frank put a giant mousetrap beneath the Umbilicus ).

Another robopsychologist mentioned by name ( the only other one in the robot series ) is Clinton Madarian, who is introduced as being Susan Calvin's successor in the story Feminine Intuition.

In the pilot for MST3K, the robot who would become Servo was named " Beeper ," who just spoke in beeps that only Crow could understand.

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.

Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It lay with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving, watching us carefully.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Indeed, it seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road, with all the traditional trimmings of sowbelly and cornbread and mint juleps, continue to live -- but only as a weary, overexploited phantom.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.