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	Robots: A Cultural Blender website
		The actual science of robotics really gained force with the creation of better computers during the decade, and great strides were taken, not only in the real world, but in the robot literature and movies of the time.
		The most famous movie robot of the fifties, however, is Robby the Robot from the movies "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and "The Invisible Boy".(1957) The familiar sound of Robby's inner "brain" working, as antennas twirled and switches clicked, was a familiar staple in science fiction throughout the 50s and 60s.
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	www.allthingsmike.com /CulturalBlender/robots.html (1353 words)

	CYDAILY.COM: Cyborg - Robot
		Robots may be controlled directly by a human, such as remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robots, robotic arms, or shuttles, or may act according to their own decision making ability, provided by artificial intelligence.
		Robots are also useful in environments which are unpleasant or dangerous for humans to work in, for example the cleaning of toxic waste, bomb disposal, work in space or underwater and in mining.
		Robots are being considered for use in performing highly delicate, accurate surgery, or to allow a surgeon who is located remotely from their patient to perform a procedure using a robot controlled remotely.
	www.cydaily.com /cyborg/robot.html (2331 words)

	Robot - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		Robots are built in many different forms, ranging from humanoid to industrial, and their appearance is dictated by the functions they are to perform.
		Humanoid robots are being developed with the aim of providing robotic functions in a form that may increase their appeal to customers [8].
		The capacities of a humanoid robot may include (a) autonomous learning, that is, learning new capabilities and adapting to new situations without outside assistance; (b) self-maintenance, such as the ability to recharge its batteries; (c) interacting safely with humans and the environment; and (d) avoiding situations that could harm others or itself.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Robot (3857 words)

	Literature
		Literature is literally "an acquaintance with letters" (as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary), but has generally come to identify a collection of texts.
		For example, the works of Charles Dickens are perceived by almost everyone as being "literature", whereas the works of Jeffrey Archer tend to be looked down on as unworthy of inclusion under the general heading of English literature.
		Poetry is perhaps the oldest form of literature: The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh dates from around 3000 B.C.; the Bible and the works of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
	www.fastload.org /li/Literature.html (2035 words)

	Robots in the Web: threat or treat?
		Robots can help maintain the content as well as the structure, by checking for HTML [5] compliance, conformance to style guidelines, regular updates, etc., but this is not common practice.
		It is the author's opinion that remote robots should not be distributed to end-users, and fortunately it has so far been possible to convince at least some robot authors to cancel releases [13].
		Even without the dangers client-side robots pose an ethical question: where the use of a robot may be acceptable to the community if its data is then made available to the community, client-side robots may not be acceptable as they operate only for the benefit a single user.
	www.robotstxt.org /wc/threat-or-treat.html (5000 words)

	Robots In Culture
		In later literature and films, robots were made of metal, however, in the 1920s, Capek made his robots of flesh and blood.
		The robot belongs as much to politics as it does to AI and science fiction, though it is associated more with the latter in the contemporary period.
		In the late 1970s and 1980s, the robot in cinema and literature, were often portrayed as disembodied objects, such as "Hal" by Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: Space Odyssey and later personified by Stanley Kubrick in the film of the same name.
	people.csail.mit.edu /kathleen/culturerobots.html (895 words)

	Crosswalk.com - A Closer Look At Robots
		The word robot was coined in 1921 by a writer named Karel Capek for a play entitled "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots." It is based on the Czech word "robotnik" which means worker.
		Robots can be used to perform dangerous jobs such as defusing and disposing of bombs or other lethal or hazard materials, exploring caves and volcanoes, or acting as body guards.
		The number one user of robots is the auto industry; however, most factories have a closed door policy because of the chance of a student being injured.
	www.crosswalk.com /family/home_school/1406728.html (1461 words)

	Robot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robots may be used to perform tasks that are too dangerous or difficult for humans, such as radioactive waste clean-up, or may be used to automate mindless repetitive tasks that should be performed with more precision by a robot than by a human, such as automobile production.
		Robots may be controlled directly by a human, such as remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robots and robotic arms; or may act according to their own decision making ability, provided by artificial intelligence.
		The word "robot" is also used in a general sense to mean any machine that mimics the actions of a human (biomimicry), in the physical sense or in the mental sense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robot (3969 words)

	Robots in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robots appear in a wide variety of literature and the first use of the word in its modern sense was in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (written in 1920; first performed in Czechoslovakia 1921; performed in New York 1922; English edition published 1923) [1].
		While Karel Čapek is frequently acknowledged as the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek as its true inventor [2].
		The theme of robots has been picked up by science fiction writers and many volumes are focussed on Robots and their interaction with the human species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robots_in_literature (339 words)

	List of fictional robots : Robots in literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robots discover their "roots" in Robots Return[?] by Robert Moore Williams[?] (1938).
		Robot as murder witness in True Confession[?] by F.
		That is those who were in office with me would not kill me, because they approved there to do but in the night to flee, so that they who should kill me they also would have been slain.".
	www.termsdefined.net /ro/robots-in-literature.html (916 words)

	Industrial Robots and Factory Automation Equipment - EPSON Robotics
		Cartesian robots, due to the linear nature of their movements, are naturally more precise than rotary motion style robots
		However, typical Cartesian robots have the trade-off of a lower speed for this greater repeatability.
		EPSON Robotics E-Series Robots are responsible for doing tasks such as: hard disk assembly, electronics assembly, fiber optics assembly, machine loading, and material handling to name a few.
	robots.epson.com (562 words)

	Glmsmry
		The legend of the Golem is highly relevant to the considerations of robots in literature.
		The legend depicts the problems that pervade robot literature with regard to the relationship between the creator and the created.
		This sensibility informs much literature involving robots, for the creator must realize that no matter how much control he or she believes she has, his or her creation will serve as a reflection of his will and desires to reveal all his or her glories, fallacies, and limitations.
	www.umich.edu /~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmqstns.html (786 words)

	ROBOTS ANDROIDS AND CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS AUTOMATION THE FUTURE OF MANKIND
		With robots a reality and intelligent robots a likely prospect, a better understanding of interactions between robots and human is embodied in such modern films as Spielberg's A.I. (movie) (2001) and Proyas' I, Robot (2004).
		Robotic AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) and other autonomous delivery robots are beginning to be used in the industry, hospitals, laboratories, server facilities and other applications where risk, reliability and security are important concerns.
		The most popular category of home robots is the robotic vacuum cleaners, with 570,000 units sold worldwide by the end of 2003 [3].
	www.solarnavigator.net /robots.htm (4762 words)

	Robots In Culture
		The term Robot was invented in the early 1920s by Czech playwright Karel Čapek.
		In later literature and films, robots were made of metal, however, in the 1920s Čapek made his robots of flesh and blood.
		In the late 1970s and 1980s, the robot in cinema and literature, were often portrayed as disembodied objects, such as "HAL: 9000" by Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: Space Odyssey and later personified by Stanley Kubrick in the film of the same name.
	people.csail.mit.edu /kathleen/culture.html (974 words)

	ipedia.com: List of fictional robots and androids Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent (1934)
		Giskard Reventlov, from The Robots of Dawn and subsequent novels
		The robot butler B166ER, the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One, and the Sentinels from the Matrix series.
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_fictional_robots_and_androids.html (1186 words)

	Foster-Miller - TALON Robots - Nanotechnology Company specializing in System Design and Integration, Microelectronics, ...
		TALON Hazmat robots have been re-engineered to be even more versatile and adaptable than their predecessors.
		One of the newest members of the TALON family of robots is specially designed to help combat engineers remotely investigate suspicious objects to determine whether or not they are IEDs.
		Read other e-mails from Iraq that were sent by soldiers who use TALON robots there.
	www.foster-miller.com /lemming.htm (607 words)

	Amazon.com: Robots (Kingfisher Young Knowledge): Books: Clive Gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robots are amazing machines that can work on their own.
		Robots by Clive Gifford is a complete science lesson on Robots compiled into one book.
		Children will see how robots are used in space, to help doctors, and how robots are used in space.
	www.amazon.com /Robots-Kingfisher-Young-Knowledge-Gifford/dp/0753456184 (983 words)

	Life and Literature Without Robots \| TIME
		Totally absent of giant robots, schoolgirl romantic melodrama or any manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities.
		Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude.
		Along with Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man, the two books reveal a side of Asian comix that could redefine the manga/manwha "genre" for most Americans by telling small, mature stories that are rich in complexity, humor and meaning in their unique way as any Western graphic literature.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,1152700,00.html (1572 words)

	Rundown on Robots quiz -- free game
		The word 'robot' was first used by a writer, in a play known as R.U.R (Rostum's Universal Robots).
		Gort, The robot in the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," was huge.
		In the long running series 'Dr Who' the Doctor had two robot companions over the years.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=126313 (186 words)

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	www.robots.epson.com /general/litreqst.htm (96 words)

	SF Signal: POLL RESULTS: Robot Smackdown!
		Here are the results of the latest SF Signal poll.
		Which of these robots from literature, movies and TV is your favorite?
		Perhaps its interesting to note that robots from literature received 41.7% of the votes, movie robots received 30% of the votes and tv robots got 28.3% of the votes.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/004417.html (96 words)

	Robots - Juvenile literature books, find the lowest prices
		You may browse this category by title or by publication date.
		Ramblin' Robots : Building a Breed of Mechanical Beasts
		Robots : What They Are, What They Do
	www.allbookstores.com /Robots-Juvenile_Literature.html (110 words)

	buysoundtrax.com - Music For Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Never before in the history of sound has such a sonic-powered jetstream of audio wizardry been unleashed upon an unsuspecting public!
		Originally offered in the 1960s as a technologically obsolete 33rpm LP from Captain Company in the pages of FAMOUS MONSTERS, this mindbending collection combines the all-knowing Ackermans out-of-this-world musings of robots in literature and cinema with the cosmic electronic musical wizardry of Coe.
		And thanks to today.s super scientific aural technology, this sub-atomic masterpiece has been meticulously restored and remastered in glorious Sci-Hi-Fi.
	www.buysoundtrax.com /pcpto-music_robots.html (142 words)

	Robot Comic Book Cover Gallery
		Here is a small sample of the huge impact of robots in literature.
		I found mostly found these examples on the web, so they vary in quality.
		For more about this great work of art, go here.
	www.jeffbots.com /bookbots.html (69 words)

	Robots (2005) - Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Getting in gear to cheer: Imaginative 'Robots' greater than its spare parts.
		A Clockwork Lemon: 'Robots' Creates a Fantastic Setting, Then Fills It With Insipid Characters.
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	www.imdb.com /title/tt0358082/literature (154 words)

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