( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.

Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, the Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori's Macross series.

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

The Robots described in Čapek's play are not robots in the popularly understood, modern sense of a " mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human.

Nerve fibers, arteries, and intestines are spun on factory bobbins, while the Robots themselves are assembled like automobiles.

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

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.

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.

Robots are essentially decent.

Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code.

Robots are used in pharmaceutical research in a technique called High-throughput screening.

Robots in films are often sentient and sometimes sentimental, and they have filled a range of roles in science fiction films.

Web site owners wishing to prevent search engines from deep linking are able to use the existing Robots Exclusion Standard ( robots. txt file ) to specify their desire or otherwise for their content to be indexed.

" Photovores: Intelligent Robots are Constructed From Castoffs ".

They are resolved by applying the science of logic and psychology together with mathematics, the supreme solution finder being Dr. Susan Calvin, Chief Robopsychologist of U. S. Robots.

* Robots which are of low enough value can have the Third Law deleted ; they do not have to protect themselves from harm, and the brain size can be reduced by half.

* Robots that are disposable, cannot receive orders from a human being and are not able to harm a human, will not require even the First Law.

Daneel's cerebroanalysis capabilities are absent in The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.

The Designers Republic's works are often playful and bright, and considered Maximum-minimalist, mixing images from Japanese anime and subvertised corporate logos, with a postmodern tendency towards controversial irony, featuring statements like " Work Buy Consume Die ", " Robots Build Robots ", " Customized Terror ", " Buy nothing, pay now ", and " Made In The Designers Republic ".

Although the Marx name is now largely forgotten except by toy collectors, several of the brands the company developed remain strong icons in popular culture, including Rock ' em Sock ' em Robots, introduced in 1964, and its best-selling sporty Big Wheel tricycle, one of the most popular toys of the 1970s.

The group originated at the popular and now defunct club Save the Robots, and consisted of a volatile group of musicians jamming together to create a heavy groove of drum ' n ' bass blended with quick dance elements.

The Autobots were eventually able to claim victory through the invention of transformation, and the resultant era of peace, known as the Golden Age of Cybertron, was policed by the reprogrammed Dark Guardians, now simply called Guardian Robots and redecorated with a blue and white color scheme.

The band, now expanded to a four piece with drummer Marc Hackworthy and bassist Emma Feeney, also appear on the ' Robopop the Return ' compilation alongside Goldfrapp, Tiga, Robots in Disguise, Matinée Club and The Knife.

Robots storm the factory and kill all the humans, except for Alquist, whom the Robots spare because they recognize that " he works with his hands like the Robots.

In The Robots of Dawn, Dr. Han Fastolfe refers to Andrew Martin as a robot that was supposed to have undergone " gradual humanization ," but states that such a thing would have been impossible, because the shape of the body dictates the state of the mind.

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.

But the staff of U. S. Robots is wary, because, in performing the calculations, their rival's ( non-positronic ) supercomputer has destroyed itself.

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.

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.

Robots and computers were used for many tasks on Krypton, even for determining what career paths young boys and girls would take as they grew up.

Robots can move, shoot at each other, scan for each other, and hit the walls ( or other robots ) if they aren't careful.

* Robots that do not require orders from a human being may have the Second Law deleted, and therefore require smaller brains again, providing they do not require the Third Law.

Robots and similar creations, including cyborgs, can have superior intelligence when they are created as sentient beings.

As well as fighting each other, they had to avoid the " House Robots ", which were not bound by the same weight or weapon limits as the contestants.

It is then shown they are playing " Brawlin ' Bots " ( a parody of Rock ' Em Sock ' Em Robots ).

In the reboot series Robots in Disguise, they was a boy named Koji Onishi.

When Argus & Pablo alone went to rescue Dr. Mary Anne Harley, they had to destroy the AA-Artillery, which wasn't easy for they had to sneak pass the Robots which were well armed and had set up a large base.

Another difference is that the Robots use wireless energy transfer, meaning that buildings are always tied into the energy network no matter where they are on the map.

Robots of this degree of complexity do not yet exist, but they have been widely anticipated in science fiction, films and are a topic of active research and development in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.

# Robots are artifacts ; they should not be designed to exploit vulnerable users by evoking an emotional response or dependency.

In 2005, Tripod performed the show " Lady Robots v1. 1 " at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: a musical / comedy type stage-show telling the story of three men, hurled into space where they come across a planet populated only by Lady Robots.