Therefore, in a much later book, Robots and Empire ( 1985 ), Asimov provided a different origin for the future Earth's radioactivity-making it the result of a gradual process in the course of which human and other life could survive.

* Isaac Asimov's Robots, Empire, and Foundation stories ( the links between many of the stories are a retcon )

Next, they go to Solaria, where they find that the Solarians — who have survived the Spacer-Settler conflicts by clever retreat detailed in Asimov's novel Robots and Empire — have engineered themselves into self-reproducing hermaphrodite beings, who have remained generally intolerant of human physical presence or contact.

The author also reveals what has happened to Earth, as described in Robots and Empire.

The first four robot novels The Caves of Steel ( 1953 ), The Naked Sun ( 1956 ), The Robots of Dawn ( 1983 ), and Robots and Empire ( 1985 ) make up the Elijah Baley ( sometimes " Lije Baley ") series, and are mysteries starring the Terran Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

Robots of Dawn was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1984, and Robots and Empire was shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1986.

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series, making R. Daneel Olivaw appear again twenty thousand years later in the age of the Galactic Empire, in sequels and prequels to the original Foundation trilogy ; and in the final book of the Robots series — Robots and Empire — we learn how the worlds that later formed the Empire were settled, and how Earth became radioactive ( which was first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky ).

According to Robots and Empire, uranium has fallen out of use a very long time ago and is all but forgotten, fusion based nuclear reactors aren't used on large scale, and nearly all the power comes from solar space stations.

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.

Another connection was later established with Robots and Empire, where Asimov revealed how Earth became radioactive, as mentioned in all three novels.

Some sources further this argument by asserting that The Stars, Like Dust takes place about one thousand years following the events of Robots and Empire.

The robotic character R. Daneel Olivaw was the first to give the Zeroth Law a name in the novel Robots and Empire however the character Susan Calvin articulates the concept in the short story " The Evitable Conflict ".

In the final scenes of the novel Robots and Empire R. Giskard Reventlov is the first robot to act according to the Zeroth Law.

Set between The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire, Mark W. Tiedemann's Robot Mystery trilogy updates the Robot – Foundation saga with robotic minds housed in computer mainframes rather than humanoid bodies.

In " The Robots of Death " ( 1977 ), the Fourth Doctor tried to explain this to his companion Leela, using the analogy of how a larger cube can appear to be able to fit inside a smaller one if the larger cube is farther away, yet immediately accessible at the same time ( see Tesseract ).

By the time the play is set ( in the 1950s or 1960s, presumably ), Robots are cheap and available all over the world.

Helena meets Fabry, Dr. Gall, Alquist, Busman, and Hallemeier, and reveals she is a representative of the League of Humanity, a human rights organization that wishes to " free " the Robots.

One of the things Helena requests is that the Robots get paid so that they can buy things they like, but the Robots do not like anything.

Busman attempts to negotiate a peace with the Robots but is killed.

" Mirror Image ", one of the short stories from The Complete Robot anthology, is also set in this time period ( between The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn ), and features both Baley and Olivaw.

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots. txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web crawlers and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable.

* Robots. txt is not a security measure

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 Zoot Marlowe series ( 1989 – 1991 ) by Mel Gilden ( Surfing Samurai Robots, Hawaiian UFO Aliens, and Tubular Android Superheroes ) features an alien protagonist who is an homage to Philip Marlowe.

Deep linking is also practiced outside the search engine context, so some participating in this debate question the relevance of the Robots Exclusion Standard to controversies about Deep Linking.

Zero is one of Dr. Eggman's Robots sent to find Amy's friend Birdie.

War with the Robots ( pub: 1962 ) is a collection of science fiction stories, written by Harry Harrison in 1956-1961.

Rise of the Robots is a 1994 fighting game developed by Mirage Studios and published by Time Warner Interactive.

The one exception to this naming convention is Car Robots, where the sub-group referred to as " Decepticons " in the Robots in Disguise adaptation, is known in Japan as the Combatrons ( the Japanese name of the G1 subgroup known as the Combaticons ).

Robots have been a part of science fiction since the Czech playwright Karel Čapek coined the word in 1921.

* Rollers: Robots that move by rolling all or part of their body.

It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories ( collected in I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and The Complete Robot ) and several novels ( The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn ).

DiMaggio has noted that he had difficulty singing as Bender in " Hell Is Other Robots " because he was forced to sing the harmony part in a low key.

* Pavonis Mons provides the putative setting for the song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" by The Flaming Lips, released as part of the albumYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

They helped Mystery Incorporated and Cassidy Williams to reach the Midnight Zone ( the deepest part of the ocean near Crystal Cove ) when World War II Robots have been attacking Cassidy Williams.

: Although designed to be part of the Beast Machines toyline, this figure of Megatron's fortress / spaceship body was aborted, and then revived for the Robots in Disguise toyline in 2002, where it was reimagined as a new body for that universe's Megatron.

It was shown in English internationally as part of Jim Terry's Force Five lineup, and was also broadcast in Latin America as " El Gladiador " as part of a 4 anime mecha show called El Festival de los Robots ( with the other 3 being " Starzinger ", " Magne Robo Gakeen " and " Kotetsu Jeeg ", known as " El Galactico ", " Supermagnetron " and " El Vengador " respectively ).

The player may take part in the war against the Hive, an ever expanding race of NPC Robots, vying for control of areas of space containing asteroids rich in valuable minerals.

Despite not being on the final shortlist, Pamela Salem won a small voice role in Leela's debut story, The Face of Evil, followed by a substantial part in the next story The Robots of Death.

In July 2012, stage play versions of " The Robots of Death ", adapted to include Kaston Iago and Elska Blayes in the place of the Doctor and Leela, and " Storm Mine ", were performed at Fab Cafe and The Lass O ' Gowrie by The Lass O ' Gowrie Theatre Company, as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.

In the 80's the series was shown in Latin America, where it was part of a giant robot show fashioned in the style of Force Five, called " El Festival de los Robots " which translates to " Festival of Robots ".

* The band took part in several cross-country tours, playing alongside such groups as Japan's Guitar Wolf, Captured by Robots, NoMeansNo, Ghoultown, The Fireballs of Freedom, Volumen, and The Spiders.

In the U. S., Little Robots is part of Cartoon Network's Tickle-U programming block and debuted in 2003.

It was managed by voice actor and radio personality Wayne C. Lewis, who uses the on-air name Wankus ( who was later made part owner ), a name he used also in mainstream when he played the part of Prowl in the Fox hit, Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

The programme was a hit with listeners, although a BBC World Service listener in India allegedly " strongly objected to ' Robots taking part in a comedy show '" and another in Sierra Leone thought that " as a source of information it is misleading ".

: The entire Commando team was redecoed in various shades of gray with " urban camo " patterns as part of a Wal-Mart exclusive gift set, oddly released well after the end of the Robots in Disguise line.

Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant returned as the Doctor and Peri, but as Michael Gough had retired, the part of the Toymaker was played by David Bailie, who had previously played Dask in the 1977 story The Robots of Death.

Although they made most Hasbro versions of the Car Robots characters, they also released a number of repainted molds from previous toy lines and released them as part of the Robots in Disguise line.