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	Isaac Asimov's Robot Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in the robots' positronic brains, which all robots in his fiction must obey, and which ensure that robots don't turn against their creators.
		Asimov read this story at the age of 11, and acknowledged it as a source of inspiration in Before the Golden Age (1975), an anthology of 1930s science fiction in which Asimov told the story of the science fiction he read during his formative years.
		Rather than precursors of robots that may be made as derivatives of computers, Asimov's robots are actually what in philosophy are called homunculi, thought experiments on what sort of being would result from considering a human being and removing one or more of these characteristics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robot_Series (1385 words)

	I, Robot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950.
		Though the stories work well enough individually, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
		At the time of the collection's publication, robots were depicted in science fiction as either servile machines or evil creations that revolted in the manner of Frankenstein's monster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/I,_Robot (1007 words)

	Robot Stories - Greg Pak Interview
		The robot toys in the second story are representations of such strictly defined robots, and they fly in a dream sequence, so we get away with that one.
		The android office workers in the third story are also robots according to my definition -- they may look organic, like the flesh-and-blood replicants of "Bladerunner," but I imagine them as constructed of chips and silicone and plastic and metal, and they're powered by the same G9 processor as the robot baby.
		World Robot Declaration was published in Japan, stating that robots should be partners of humans who coexist with them and assist them in developing a safe and peaceful society.
	robots.net /article/1209.html (1802 words)

	Robot Stories
		The significance of the robots in the films are shown throughout the story as each life is changed dramatically through interations with robots and artificial life.
		Pak refers to his short stories as "science fiction from the heart" which in a sense is very true.
		Robot Stories visits the idea of artificial technology in a humanistic world rather than humans in a robotic world.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~jglore (361 words)

	Amazon.com: I, Robot: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.
		The stories are connected by discussions between "robo-psychologist" Susan Calvin (the main character in most of the stories) and a reporter who is putting together a profile of her career.
		Stories like "Nightfall," "Bicentennial Man," and of course his robot stories with their "three laws" will still be read and appreciated for years to come.
	www.amazon.com /I-Robot-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553294385 (2370 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: Movies
		In "My Robot Baby," a yuppie husband and wife (she makes Bonnie Fuller look like Miss Nice) are given a Humpty Dumpty-shape robot on which to test their parenting skills to see if they are worthy of adopting a flesh-and-blood kid.
		The mainly Asian-American actors in all four stories are uniformly on target, and Pak's direction and writing are assured, although "The Robot Fixer" is a bit too sentimental.
		"Robot Stories" happily brings to mind Rod Serling's acclaimed "The Twilight Zone" TV show from the 1960s, which, incidentally, is available nightly on the Sci-Fi channel.
	www.nypost.com /movies/16224.htm (254 words)

	Immedium: Products: Robot Stories
		The visually compelling and well-acted stories do not exist in the same world; tied together by theme, each is its own stirring narrative.
		Robots as toys, robots as children, robots as office tools, and robots as deceased loved ones teach the humans around them various lessons without hammering the audience.
		The most startling aspect of Robot Stories is not the mix the filmmaker built from spare parts left on the curb, but Mr.
	www.immedium.com /products/robotstories.html (555 words)

	Robot Stories - Kino on Video
		Greg Pak's Robot Stories is science fiction with a heart, a film that sensitively and intelligently maps an emotional frontier where people confront technology.
		Robot Stories' four chapters, each "stunningly executed in its own right" (SF Bay Guardian), spans a symbolic lifetime stretching from childhood to maturity.
		By investing Robot Stories with "a dexterous sense of wonder" (The New York Times) and substituting imagination and compassion for a blockbuster budget, "uncannily assured visual storyteller" (The Village Voice) Greg Pak has created a film that's a genuinely stirring indie rarity" (Voice).
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=736 (254 words)

	Robot Stories (2004): Reviews
		Four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.
		Each of the stories, impeccably staged and acted, has just the right length, well befitting the slight aspects of their story lines.
		The most startling aspect of Robot Stories is not the mix that the director built from spare parts left on the curb but the evolving dramatic acumen of its maker; he's a talent with a future.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/robotstories (943 words)

	Robot Stories
		In "My Robot Baby", Marcia (Tamlyn Tomita) and Roy (James Saito) hope to adopt a child, but first they must prove their dedication and competency by caring for a pink, egg-shaped "baby" that acts very much like a real infant.
		"The Robot Fixer", the best of the segments, tells the story of an estranged mother (Wai Ching Ho) who hopes to connect with her hopelessly comatose son by repairing his childhood collection of toy "Microbots".
		The four stories, with their sparse special effects, are generally satisfying, but somewhat predictable.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jul03/robotstories.htm (433 words)

	Robot Stories - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		One of those pleasant art-house surprises that materializes out of nowhere, "Robot Stories" is a four-part, 86-minute anthology -- each running close to 20 minutes, three of them quite good.
		In the prologue of "My Robot Baby," a little girl, cowering in a closet and apologetic, draws a terrible life script from her argumentative parents.
		In the "The Robot Fixer," the young adult Wilson, who has a master's degree, lies brain-dead in a coma while his grieving mother Bernice (Wai Ching Ho) tries to make sense of his obsession with toys such as action figures.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../entertainment/movies/reviews/s_188278.html (482 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Sony shows off jogging robot
		Running is a much more difficult task for a robot to perform as both of the machine's feet must be off the floor at the same time.
		Sony said the Qrio jogging robot was the result of three years of work but that it had no plans to put it on sale like the Aibo robot dog.
		The robot, which was previously known as the SDR, has previously been shown walking, climbing a shallow slope, kicking a ball and dancing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3330183.stm (384 words)

	Robot Stories
		The story that runs under the credits shows us a robot, one of a line of robots, that malfunctions in the direction of creativity and personal freedom.
		Only the story "Machine Love" is actually mostly about robots and it is the least interesting of the five stories.
		Like the sculptor taking unpromising lumps of clay and sculpting human images from them, the ROBOT STORIES takes the so frequently simplistic motif of science fiction stories and uses it to experiment with emotion and make some profound discoveries about what it is to be human.
	www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk /features/arc/2004/nz6903.php (893 words)

	Robot Stories
		Set in the near future, "Robot Stories" tells stories of human beings struggling to connect with each other in a world of mechanical office workers and robot babies.
		An exploration of robot themes in the humanist tradition of such acclaimed authors as Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.
		The title encourages us to think of Robot Stories as the cinematic equivalent of a book of short stories, and I'd say a book in which half the stories are excellent is not a bad bet.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/robot_stories (967 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I, Robot (Voyager Classics S.): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		My favourite story is the aptly titled "Reason" whereby an experimental robot deduces in his own way how he was created, what his purpose is and most amusingly what role humans have in relation to him.
		The ethical question of whether robots are "human" is not central to these stories; they are clearly machines, but they are so inherently ethical that it is hard not to see some sort of superiority to their existence.
		The "I, Robot" stories are arranged in a "chronological" order that traces the development of these robots from their primitive origins to their evolutionary destiny, where human beings may well end up being rendered obsolete.
	www.amazon.co.uk /I-Robot-Voyager-Classics-S/dp/0007119631 (1321 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review ROBOT STORIES movie by Greg Pak with Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Wai Ching Ho, Greg Pak, Vivian ...
		To start, as the film does, with the worst first, there's "My Robot Baby," about a couple (Korean-American by the looks of them) who want to adopt a baby but are given a robot instead for a parental trial run.
		"The Robot Fixer" is about a woman trying reconnect with her comatose son through the thing she remembers most strongly from his childhood — his toy robots.
		It's an obsession she never shared when her boy was young, but now his imaginary robot world becomes the most real thing she has to hold on to, if she's willing to share his fantasy.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/robotstories.php (756 words)

	Robot Stories (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Plot Summary: Winner of over 23 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly...
		The first story is the sharpest, and questions how we value motherhood against normal human values.
		All these stories are in turn funny, sexy and intelligent - I wouldn't say that any were original, well produced or deep.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0301777 (296 words)

	Robot Stories News
		Robot Stories News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Sci-fi is generally a hard-edged genre, but "Robot Stories" explores the soft side of technological fantasy.
		Speaking of robots: the 1977 Star Wars duo, R2-D2 and C-3P0, would win any popularity contest, though I lean to the mechanized evil Maria of the 1926 Metropolis, Robby the Robot of the...
	www.topix.net /movies/robot-stories (629 words)

	Amazon.com: Robot Stories: DVD: John Cariani,Catherine Carota,Louis Ozawa Changchien,Cindy Cheung,Bill Coelius,Angel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Plot Synopsis: Winner of over 23 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office workers.
		In the four-part anthology film "Robot Stories," writer/director Greg Pak examines the role that technology plays in modern life, pondering the age old quandaries of what is real and what is synthetic and whether or not technology can truly enhance our lives.
		As with many anthology films, "Robot Stories" turns out to be better in parts than it is as a whole, with certain episodes inevitably proving to be more imaginative and more captivating than others.
	www.amazon.com /Robot-Stories-John-Cariani/dp/B0006Z2NMW (1552 words)

	Robot Stories : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The first story was about a couple wanting a baby and to prove worthy they had to take care of a crude looking robot baby.
		The second story was about a man who was clinically dead and his mother refused to accept it gracefully.
		One film (The Robot Fixer) actually has little to do with technology or "robotics" as we usually perceive it (Lets play, "One of these films is not like the others"), while the others are very good speculative fiction pieces which make you go hmmm.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B0006Z2NMW.html (551 words)

	Robot stories (part I)
		Robot stories (part I) Robot stories (part I) I found a few interesting stories about robots today: U.S. soldiers in Iraq are giving nicknames and forming emotional bonds with bomb-defusing robots.
		One group of soldiers named its robot "Scooby Doo" and grieved when it was blown up after completing 35 successful missions defusing improvised explosive devices.
		When coated with pheromones taken from roaches, the insect-like robots or "insbots", could fool the cockroaches into thinking they are real creatures.
	www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/008550.php (333 words)

	Robot Stories : MovieOutfitter.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Equipped with computer sensors, the robot baby monitors its parents' caregiving, recording such crucial information as when it is fed and how often it is cuddled.
		Next, in The Robot Fixer, which is the most effective and moving story of the bunch, a mother and daughter tend to their son/brother, who has fallen into a coma after being hit by a car.
		Longing for the wife he lost long before, he debates whether to die a natural death or undergo "scanning," a process by which his consciousness may live on after his body is gone.
	www.movieoutfitter.com /store/item/738329039622/RobotStories.html (320 words)

	Robot Stories DVD prices at Smarter.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Equipped with computer sensors, the robot baby monitors its parents' caregiving, recording such crucial information as when it is fed and how often it is...
		It is the story of a G9 iPerson, the newest model of personal computer in the year 2007.
		In the final installment of ROBOT STORIES, entitled Clay, an old man living in 2027 prepares to die.
	www.smarter.com /robot_stories---pd--ch-4--pi-207859.html (447 words)

	Isaac Asimov Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In the short story collection, Lawrence Robertson receives only a brief mention in the introduction as being the first president of the corporation; several generations of his offspring run the company as the story timeline progresses.
		In Asimov's stories, Lanning is the Director of Research at U.S. Robots, and a prominent character.
		Also appearing in the collection is a new Black Widowers story, "The Last Story", written by Charles Ardai, the editor of the collection, for the December 2002 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Asimov's death and the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the first Black Widowers story.
	www.asimovonline.com (3421 words)

	Robot Stories Movie Review - Robot Stories Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		In the opener, "My Robot Baby," two yuppies (Tamlyn Tomita and James Saito) receive a preliminary robot baby to test their parenting skills for a human child to arrive later, but the horror flick we're expecting never arrives.
		Of course, the bereaved mom (Wai Ching Ho) in the mini-melodrama "The Robot Fixer" is revealed to be a slave driver in the next film; until then she's a reformed shrew.
		The big make-out scene is oddly beautiful, and the film is the work of a feeling thinker who understands how to communicate sincerity without giving you a headache, a cavity, or a lecture.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=5125 (459 words)

	Robot Stories: Synopsis
		Winner of over 30 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.
		Winner of over 30 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories starring Tamlyn Tomita ("Joy Luck Club," "Babylon 5") and Sab Shimono ("The Big Hit," "Suture") in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office workers.
		But when Roy leaves on a business emergency and the robot begins to malfunction, Marcia must confront her fears of the machine - and of motherhood itself.
	www.robotstories.net /synopsis.html (459 words)

	Robot Stories - Movie Review
		Greg Pak’s Robot Stories belongs to that rarest of subgenres, indie science fiction.
		The slightly heartsick robot as featured in “Machine Love” (played by Pak himself, in one of the feature’s better performances) isn’t the freshest of ideas, but it provides welcome relief from the undercurrent of sadness that runs through the other pieces.
		“The Robot Fixer,” the most emotional of the quartet, has the least to do with literal robotics; the robots of the title are plastic, Transformers-like toys.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/robotstories (449 words)

	Robot Stories
		Robot Stories is a series of four short films loosely tied together by the common theme of human self-discovery through technology.
		The story is disturbing both in implications of the resulting behavior and the ultimate outcome.
		The Robot Fixer has less to do with technology and more to do with human grieving as a woman symbolically repairs her adult son's robot toys from his childhood as he sinks further into a coma.
	www.jakeludington.com /now_playing/20050305_robot_stories.html (405 words)

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