In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

Most of her inventions, more often than not, have extra functions that make situations more complicated, including a self-destruct device in almost everything ( including her Robot Wars robot ...).

* In the 1995 science fiction series The Outer Limits, in the remake of the " I, Robot " episode from the original 1964 series, the business where the robot Adam Link is built is named " Rossum Hall Robotics.

TOPIO, a humanoid robot, played ping pong at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition ( IREX ) 2009.

In I, Robot, by the end of the book, there are " Machines ", brains of power sufficient to calculate human actions and give recommendation on global scale, and a humanoid robot is stated to be indistinguishable from a human being by any external examination, even by a high quality robopsychologist.

Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels ( Caliban, Inferno, Utopia ) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire and the Empire series, telling the story of the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about the robot revolution started by creating a " No Law " Robot, and then New Law Robots.

The first screen adaptation of an Asimov robot stories was the third episode of the British television series Out of This World based on " Little Lost Robot " ( 1962 ).

While this earlier script had no direct connections with Asimov, it was considered suitably ' Asimovian ' in nature ( being a locked room mystery with robot suspects ) to provide the basis for an I, Robot movie.

Elements from several Asimov robot stories were woven into the overall storyline, including " Little Lost Robot ", " The Evitable Conflict " and " Robot Dreams ".

The next month Ernest and Otto Binder published a short story " I, Robot " featuring a sympathetic robot named Adam Link who was misunderstood and motivated by love and honor.

The title story of the Robot Dreams collection portrays LVX-1, or " Elvex ", a robot who enters a state of unconsciousness and dreams thanks to the unusual fractal construction of his positronic brain.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

* Matilda, the house robot from the UK TV series Robot Wars

Robby the Robot is a tall fictional robot originally created in the mid-1950s by MGM's prop department.

Later robot designs by his principal designer Robert Kinoshita, such as Robot B-9 of Lost in Space, moved smoothly on motorized treads ( Robby appears opposite Robot B-9 in Lost in Space episode # 20 " War of the Robots ".

The early 1960s Gerry Anderson all-marionette science fiction TV series Fireball XL5 contained a robot character called ' Robert the Robot '.

The American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems — Safety Requirements ( ANSI / RIA R15. 06-1999 ) defines a singularity as “ a condition caused by the collinear alignment of two or more robot axes resulting in unpredictable robot motion and velocities .” It is most common in robot arms that utilize a “ triple-roll wrist ”.

The robot, Ariel, is performed by an actor on roller skates, with a costume reminiscent of the original movie's Robby the Robot.

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 ).

Robot fetishism ( also ASFR or technosexuality ) is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid robots ; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes.

Robot Interaction Language ( ROILA ) is a constructed language created to address the problems associated with speech interaction using natural languages.

The episode reflects the ideas created in such works as Bicentennial Man and Asimov's Robot series ( which introduced the Three Laws Of Robotics ).

In " Little Lost Robot " several NS-2, or " Nestor " robots, are created with only part of the First Law.

* Robot R & D, a game where you created robots from various parts, and could drop-test them.

Paulie's Robot, an item that through the years has enjoyed a cult following of its own, was created by the International Robotics Inc. in New York City.

In the third volume of the series, it was revealed that the U. S. Government had created the android Serpentor ( or, as he is called here, Serpent O. R., standing for Organic Robot ) using DNA from great historical war leaders and parts from Megatron.

Prior to September 1, 1997, no longer being known as a " sound system ", THX was removed from all theaters, with the exception for a couple of trailers that THX had then-recently created ( such as its own mascot, Tex the Robot ) in 1996, would vaguely be seen in theaters.

In the late 1950s the company, now called Robot-Berning, redesigned the Robot Star and created the Vollautomat Star II.

Under his production company Bad Robot, which he founded with Bryan Burk in 2001, Abrams created and executive-produced ABC's Alias and is co-creator ( along with Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber ) and executive producer of Lost.

* Armored Combat Engineer Robot ( ACER ), a military robot created by Mesa Robotics

In 1994, Marc Thorpe created Robot Wars and held the first competition at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Gutteridge and one of his producers Steve Carsey created a television format based on the Robot Wars concept.

In 2002, the Nickelodeon American television network created Nickelodeon Robot Wars where kids operated combat robots provided by American teams.

They were so impressed with Skull Man that they scrapped an entire level being created just so they could restart it and devote it to that Robot Master.

He created several games patterned after actual arcade games, such as Super Nova ( Asteroids ), Attack Force ( Targ ), Cosmic Fighter ( Astro Fighter ), Galaxy Invasion ( Galaxian ), Meteor Mission II ( Lunar Rescue ), Robot Attack ( Berzerk ), and Defense Command ( Missile Command ).

Another running gag, starting in the Star Wars remake episode " Blue Harvest ", has Chris defending Robot Chicken, a show created by portrayer Seth Green which is broadcast on the Adult Swim block on the Cartoon Network cable network.

Russell Manning ( 1929-1981 ) was an American comic book artist who created the series Magnus, Robot Fighter and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as Tarzan and Star Wars.

He created Gold Key's Magnus Robot Fighter in 1963 and drew the first 21 issues, through 1968.

According to the DVD commentary of Futurama, he was also the inspiration for the voice created for that series ' " Robot Devil ".

Epsitec Games created Colobot and Ceebot in recent years for Windows machines which are in many ways spiritual successors to Robot Odyssey.

One Girl One Laptop productions created a spiritual successor called Gate which uses the same digital logic puzzles as Robot Odyssey.

" Daryl " ( whose name is an acronym for " Data-Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform ") ( Barret Oliver ) is an experiment in artificial intelligence, created by the government.

* The year 4000 is the time for the classic comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter created by Russ Manning.

Robot Battle was created by Brad Schick in 1994 and released to the public for free in the same year, when it reached version 1. 2.