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...

A Robot is both automated and intelligent. A robot used in industry does not need to resemble a human, normallly those used in industry only need a single human type part, the most common part used is the arm. These manipulative arms are used to paint anything, simple assembly, or solder electronic ...

The image usually thought of by the word robot is that of a mechanical being, somewhat human in shape. Common in science fiction, robots are generally depicted as working in the service of people, but often escaping the control of the people and doing them harm. The word robot comes from the Czech w...

Idea of Replacement by Robots and Computers"Carl Sagan, Neil Freud, and Jeffery Rifkin discuss in all three articles the idea of robots and computer evolving into "intelligent machines". These machines (computers) will one day replace humans. These three articles talk about how these machines will...

The story I Robot was a scientific book that is based on a planet that was run by robots. They helped around the house, ran errands and also provided protection for the families they worked for without harming other humans. It starts with the first Robot being created and the world is being ru...

I, Robot Asimov's world of I, Robot is indeed a legendary glimpse into the advancement of robotic science in all its glory. When this book was first written in 1950 I would have loved to have seen the book reviews and peoples' reactions, as even today the books isn't outdated...

Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov This book is one of 3 books that make up The Robot Novels. Actually, almost all of Asimov's novels are connected (and in an ingenious way, if I may add my opinion), but these three are related closely, because they are telling the story of the same two character...

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,...

ESSAY This essay will show the ups and downs of the novels Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. It will be proven that both these novels are linked in similarity by alienation. This essay will also hopef...

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...

ROBOTS: THEIR PAST AND FUTURE Past: It was approximately 3,000 years ago when the first signs of a robot appeared. The Iliad mentions a "mobile tripod" and in the myth Jason and the Argonauts a giant sentinel by the name of Talos is talked about. These weren't real life robots, so when did th...

Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920 in Petrouchi, Russia. His parents were Judah and Anna Asimov. Isaac also has a sister Veronica and a brother Stanley. In 1923 his family immigrated to the United States. He and his family grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In Brooklyn his family ran a small can...

Science FictionScience fiction is among the most versatile forms of writing. It can be a romance, a comedy, a war story, a drama, a mystery and as the recent film The Wild, Wild West proves, even a western. Take any literary classic add in a crazed robot bent on world destruction, and a space s...

Science Fiction Science fiction takes an idea or moral issue and exaggerates it, then explores the implications of it. The story has "Harrison Bergeron" there are many different examples of this. In the short story "True Love" there are also many examples. Kurt Vonnegut Jr....

Introduction For our first book report I chose the book The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. This book was set on earth far in the future, in around the year 3300. Most of the story takes place in either New York City, the largest city on Earth, or Space Town, the colony set up by inhabitants fr...

In the novel " The Naked Sun " by Isaac Asimov, the main character in the novel is a New York police officer, Elijah Baley, who is sent to another planet called Solaria to solve a murder mystery. He is a young police officer who choosen by government of Solaria because of his earlier experiences in...