( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

Reminiscent of the Tower of Babel, the characters discuss whether creating national Robots who were unable to communicate beyond their language group would have been desirable.

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 ).

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 at BattleBots tournaments were separated into four weight classes.

While the Robots were capable of sequence photography, the shutter that made this possible placed some constraints upon taking lenses and shutter speeds.

Four unreleased molds were released in the Machine Wars line, and four more resurfaced in the Robots In Disguise series.

Previous examples were the Japanese series programs Masterforce and Car Robots.

Despite appearing on systems which were cartridge-based, Rise of the Robots had some full motion video which was very impressive considering the limited space of cartridges and floppy disks.

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.

Robots were judged by a panel based on a scoring system of damage, style, aggression, and control.

:* The Corner Patrol Zones / CPZ ( s ) ( Series 3 onwards ) – From Series 3 onward, the House Robots were confined to the four corners of the arena and moved in a rota system through all of the machines.

< span id = ch1 ></ span > The first chapter, The Coming of the Robots, included some of Asimov's earliest robot stories, where the Three Laws of Robotics were not yet explicitly defined.

It was not until a mention of her in The Robots of Dawn, Asimov's third Elijah Baley Robot novel, that the events of her era ( the 21st century ) were concretely tied into those of Baley's era, at least two-and-a-half millennia further into the future, and thus into the greater Foundation universe as a whole.

The musical style and theme of Time were echoed in later albums such as The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy, who cited the album as a great influence ; and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips.

Three of them were published in an earlier collection, Fables for Robots.

Robots that were capable of stacking would use this time to begin building and protecting a stack of bins.

In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, the Autobots main enemies were Predacons, based off the Transformers: Beast Wars villain faction of the same name.

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.

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.

In Dreamwave Productions ’ continuation of the Generation One universe, Omega ’ s origins were similar to the animated series ; he was one of the Omega Sentinels, the Dreamwave universe ’ s version of the Guardian Robots, which guarded the city of Iacon on Cybertron ( and were rendered in the Dark Guardian / Mechabot 1 color scheme ).

In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, a subtle nod is given to Alpha Trion's status when Optimus Prime mentions that both he and his brother Ultra Magnus were created by Alpha Trion.

* Robots capable of manual labour tasks

** 2030 – Robots capable of performing at human level at most manual jobs Marshall Brain

In the sequel, The Robots of Dawn, however, Elijah Bailey and Daneel have a detailed discussion about the fact that NO Spacer, including non-Aurorans, would ever confuse even a humaniform robot like Daneel for a real human being due to the mechanical behavior and mannerisms of a robot.

Robots In Disguise was responsible for introducing a lot of concepts that would be re-used often in the next incarnations of Transformers.

He would explore it most fully in Robots and Empire.

All of the members found some comfort in their solo work – Empire's output at this time would include his sole release as Nintendo Teenage Robots, and the bootleg recording Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley, as well as remixes for the likes of The Mad Capsule Markets, Mogwai and Thurston Moore.

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.

The company U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., is approached by its biggest competitor that has plans for a working hyperspace engine that allows humans to survive the jump ( a theme which would be further developed in future Asimov stories ).

He would have been a servant of Unicron, abducted from his home dimension and made into one of Unicron's troops, which would explain how a G2 character could appear in Robots in Disguise, a different universe altogether.

: A proposed exclusive for a future BotCon, this Megatron would have been a remolded version of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Megatron in the colors of Megatron's transmetal dragon body, with a new headsculpt based on Megatron's traditional head design ( as well as remolded dragon heads ) and a new accessory in the form of his famous rubber duck.

Following the release of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in 2002, The Flaming Lips would return to the concept of surround sound with a DVD-Audio special-edition of that album in 2003.

Later, Asimov would introduce the mind-reading robot R. Giskard Reventlov in the 1983 novel The Robots of Dawn, and the telepathic world-entity Erythro in the 1989 novel Nemesis.

Legal problems resulting from Beyond's bankruptcy meant it would be four years before Better than Ezra's next studio album, Before the Robots.

: Wheeljack would appear again in the Transformers: Universe toy line as a Spy Changer toy, a repaint of Robots In Disguise Daytonus ( who was in turn based on an unused Generation 2 Go-Bot mold ), in the colors of the original Generation One Wheeljack.

The later episodes could be described as “ free-standing ”, having no or little relation with each other, although they all involve Astro saving the day, and he would eventually make himself one of the World ’ s Strongest Robots and also hero of Japan.

Although 3H Enterprises ' loss of the license would forestall the conclusion to the Universe storyline, an explanation of sorts would be found in issue 8 of the Transformers Collectors Club magazine Cybertron / Robots in Disguise.

Although 3H Enterprises losing the license would forestall the conclusion to the Universe storyline, an explanation of sorts would be found in issue 8 of the Transformers Collectors Club magazine Cybertron / Robots in Disguise, where Optimus Prime told the tale of how Unicron's forces were defeated in one last battle by Optimus Primal's forces, as Unicron disappeared due to the black hole opened in Transformers: Energon.

Dr. Susan Calvin was the first, and for many years, the only robopsychologist at U. S. Robots, and is the main character in many of Asimov's short stories, usually dealing with robot problems in the laboratory.

Robots are usually anthropomorphic, to the point of being divided into sexes.

Robots are usually worked on and distributed in. prg format, but some coders choose to scramble their robots and distribute them as. dst files.