We've seen them in the movies, in cartoons, and even working in hazardous conditions separate from humans, but as technology improves and man kind moves forward robots are appearing everywhere. Traditionally used to work independent from humans robots are now working with humans due to the ne...

In Chapek's R.U.R. according to the book robots really become "human" only at the very end. But what is it to become human? Even though robots considered themselves to be superior to humans, throughout the conflict between robots and humans, robots were trying everything to be more hu...

An automated system is a system where the system can automatically adjust their task to the surrounding or according to data received from the input device. The system does not need human to input control it as it can correct or control its self according to the input device. The system can turn it ...

Robot City 3 (Book 5) Refuge By Rob Chilson Refuge is only one book of seven that are in the collection of Robot City. Robot City is not Earth. It is another planet that was made by one human, Dr. Avery, who created a world where robots do most of the manual labor. There are few people live there,...

The Self-Destruction of Humankind in R. U. R. In Karel Capek's play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, on a mission from a humanitarian organization devoted to liberating the Robots, ...

Bicentennial Man, by Isaac Asimov, tells a story of a robot, who is somewhat different and slowly becomes a human after two hundred years of upgrades and modifications. Asimov's original collection of short stories are aimed to provide a positive angle on robots, when really in contrast, scien...

Robot can make big different in the feature Gundam is a robot that can be able to get to other plants, in speed that can be 100X faster than the greatest technology we have. Gundam is a robot that we¡re going to use in about 20 years. According to the scientist, Gundam have many differe...

Rough Copy of Bicentennial man In ESL we were given a task by the teacher, to write about a movie called bicentennial man. I learnt about the meaning of life, how robots work and the emotions. Bicentennial man is a robot called Andrew who is played by the actor Robin Williams. He slowly become...

People always tend to seek the easy way out looking for something that would make their lives easier. Computers have given us the ability to do more in less time giving us, at the same time, more comfort. Computer technology is used everywhere from businesses to homes. Programmers and technologists ...

AI: Artificial Intelligence Film Review Description and Critical Discussion: This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new ...

English Speech: Artificial intelligence It is the year 2786. The world as we knew it ceases to exist and now lies in chaos and turmoil. It is a world consisting of baron wastelands stripped of all vegetation and life forms. Humanity lies at the brink of extinction. With only a few sti...

Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence is a visually stunning and thematically complex film that asks deep questions about love and reality as man seeks to make himself in God's image. Through interactions with the artificial child and his "foster parents", the role of the mechas in so...

There was an article written by Brad Darrach regarding a robot, named Shakey, which was built by The Stanford Research Institute. Shakey possessed human qualities such as reason and understanding and the article posed the question is Shakey a person? Well to answer this we must first define what a...

Human? The definition of human is a difficult one to compose. Every time humanity thinks it has figured out exactly how we are different than the rest of life on Earth, we figure out that other animals share the exact same attributes. At one point in time we thought that we were the only species...

Philip Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' is an interesting though complex piece of fiction that criticizes the influx of technology in our world through the use of robots. Androids in this novel are robots that appear like humans but lack the capacity of empathy and hence...

In Monica Hughes's story, "The Price of Land," the government saw human life in dollar symbols. The story tells of a farming family who had not experienced the best of luck making money off of the farm. Money was short but there was a solution offered by the government; not too with...

Ever since the beginning of time, Man's lifelong quest is to improve himself, and to improve his status. What better way to do this than to attempt to imitate God? Due to the rapid pace it is progressing at, technology is beginning to put this ability in our hands. It was made to improve our...

I believe we were created according to what Genesis 1:1-1:27 states. I have been taught that God created everything. First God produced the heavens and Earth. Then created light. After forming light, God then created water and vegetation. Then animals were actualized and then man was created and ...

The Pop Culture Assault Music TV channels, broadcasting variety of programs ranging from ordinary music videos through charts, various shows to cartoons are the symptom of our times. No matter if it's MTV or VIVA, they sell very similar stuff, often cheap and shallow. The pop culture a...

The Pop Culture Assault Music TV channels, broadcasting variety of programs ranging from ordinary music videos through charts, various shows to cartoons are the symptom of our times. No matter if it's MTV or VIVA, they sell very similar stuff, often cheap and shallow. The pop culture and consumptio...

The False Hope of Cryonics Have you ever thought about living one hundred years or more from now? If current beliefs are proven to be possible it may be a possibility in the future. Alcor, a life extension foundation, claims that Cryonics may make it possible for people who die to be revived in th...

Today, people are living in a technological advanced world, filled with medical breakthroughs, space travel, as well as computer advancements. Throughout the years, people have been rejoicing in our inventions and our evolution. So, how is it that with theses 'advancements' there is such...

Resistance to Technology Technology. What would we do without it? Probably have a lot less fun and have a lot shorter life span. Think about it, you couldn't watch Dawson's Creek or Friends every week. That would mean that the lives of millions of teenage girls in America woul...

We are in a world of uncertainty and we can only guess and make predictions about what tomorrow will bring us. The book 1984 by George Orwell, was written in 1949 with his predictions about the future in 1984, thirty five years later. The part that interested me the most was where Orwell explains ho...

OUTLINE According to H. Bruce Franklin, science fiction is "the onlyliterature capable of exploring the macro-history of our species. . . in acosmic context" (Science Fiction: The Early History, Internet) whichsuggests that man's place in the universe is depen...