* Robot Fighting League

In 2003, the roboteers themselves formed The Fighting Robot Association and with their associated event organisers, carry on participating in competitions for new audiences.

The confusion is exacerbated by the fact that while the UK Jackson was co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, the US Jackson also wrote three books in this series ( Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando ), and the books did not acknowledge that this was a different Steve Jackson.

As a hobby, he builds combat robots, and his children, James Ueki and Alex Ueki, are the 2004 and 2005 Robot Fighting League National Champions in the 30 lb Featherweight class.

The " Creative Breaking / K-1 Fighting " episode featured Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000, in their theatrical silhouette form, cracking on sketches the Brothers performed.

The Robot Fighting League ( RFL ) was created in 2002 when several builders decided that robot combat needed standardization of rules and judging criteria The majority of robot combat events in the U. S. have become RFL members and have adopted their ruleset, but some event organizers oppose the direction in which the RFL is taking the sport and remain independent.

* Flame Weapons-Although prohibited for use by competitors in Robot Wars and BattleBots, the rules for Robotica and the Robot Fighting League do allow flame weapons under some circumstances.

Current Robot Fighting League match rules require the latter to be achieved.

* Robot Fighting League ( United States & Canada )

* Robot Fighting League-north and South American rules and oversight organization.

* Fighting Robot Association-FRA

* Fighting MUSA Robot Unveiled ( Kendo, Not Rock ' em Sock ' em )

The RoboCup autonomous soccer competition had a " RoboCup Four-Legged Robot Soccer League " in which numerous institutions from around the world would participate.

* Gleek appears in the Robot Chicken episode " Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " in the sketch " Sidekick Elevator ".

* Brazilian Robot Combat League

It has been suggested that the evolution of the tetrapod limb from lobe-finned fishes is related to the loss of the proteins actinodin 1 and actinodin 2, which are involved in fish fin development Robot simulations indicate the necessary nervous circuitry for walking evolved from the nerves governing swimming, utilizing the sideways oscillation of the body with the limbs primarily functioning as anchoring points and providing limited thrust.

The Robot I was quite small, the body measuring 4¼ inches long, 2½ inches high, and 1¼ inches deep.

But in " Ghost in the Machines ", due to his suicide, Bender is turned to a ghost who can't interact with people and can possesses machines: he used this ability in order to " scare Fry to death " when he makes a deal with Robot Devil to get a new body.

He routinely takes advantage of his friends, framing them for crimes, robbing them, stealing Fry's blood on more than one occasion, stealing Fry's power of attorney, using Fry's body to smash open a window, stealing jewelry from Amy, as well as using Zoidberg in various get-rich-quick schemes, although it is probable he does not consider Dr. Zoidberg a friend since in " Obsoletely Fabulous " Bender begged the 1X Robot to " save ( his ) friends and Zoidberg " ( Though it is seen that he helps Zoidberg from time to time, as seen in " That's Lobstertainment !").

* The demon Moloch has an advanced robotic body built for him to inhabit " I, Robot ... You, Jane.

: A newly-designed body for the Robot Masters line based on Megatron's original T. rex form, though smaller.

There are also amusing stunts such as the Yo-yo and the Robot, which give the illusion that the balls are connected to each other or to the juggler's body.

The Mechana Robot is the largest body type, and represents a large mecha-style robot.

Patterns are textures that drawn on the body that can range from materials e. g. Glass, Rock, Lava ; skins e. g. Dog, Cow, Parrot ; or outfits e. g. Ninja, Santa, Cute Robot.

The mad scientist then straps the re-animated Robot Chicken into a chair, uses calipers to hold his eyes open, and forces him to watch a bank of television monitors ( an allusion to A Clockwork Orange ); this scene segues into the body of the show.

The 1995 US Robot Wars heavyweight co-champion Blendo was the first effective full body spinner.

* Rolling Tube-Snake competed at Battlebots and the US Robot Wars using a series of actuators to bend its triangular cross-section tubular body to roll, writhe, and slither across the arena.

The term Vehicon would later be used in the backstory for Takara's Robot Masters line, as the name of the planet of Transformers led by Reverse Convoy, a Transformer whose body was possessed by G1 Megatron.

* Model # 1 ( a. k. a. Shark Robot ): The first model of Giant Robot had a shark-like head, triangle-shaped body and blades for arms, the first one was used against the A-Squad when they piloted the Delta Squad Megazord.

* Model # 2 ( a. k. a. Drill Robot ): The second giant robot used was a tank-like vehicle composed of a giant turbine and had spikes.

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.