Questions tagged [robots]
For questions about robots and their use in a specific work of science-fiction or fantasy; use this tag in conjunction with the specific work in question, e.g. [star-wars]. Also for use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag. Use [robot-series] for the series of stories and novels by Isaac Asimov.
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Anime where robots resembling the machines from Nier: Automata attack a city and begin killing everyone
A few days ago, YouTube recommended a video to me. Unfortunately, the video seems to have been deleted or hidden by the creator.
It included a scene from an anime where a city was under attack by ...
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Domestic robot sacrifices itself rather than harm family
This is a novella or short story, likely in an anthology, written before 1995.
A family had an android servant. It accepted English instructions but sometimes misunderstood them or took them too ...
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Asimov short (I think) - What story is told via letters, where a couple need a look-a-like robot when the couple (or the husband) goes away?
Asimov short (I think) - What story is told via letters from the family to the robot manufacturer, where a couple hired a look-a-like robot when the couple (or the husband) goes away?
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Anime with a cyclops robot summoned with a card
I'm looking for an anime I watched on TV in 2018.
All I can remember is that the main character could summon a giant cyclops robot with a card ig. There were 3 variants of the robot: normal, gold, and ...
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Short story in which the main character buys a robot psychotherapist to get rid of the obsessive desire to kill
The main character buys a robot psychotherapist to get rid of the obsessive desire to kill, but the robot is confused with a model for Martians.
I remember the content quite accurately, but I can't ...
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pre-1972 novel where scientist puts his own brain in robot body and becomes immortal
It was a pre-1972 paperback novel. Bad guys were after a scientist's robot invention that ran on cosmic energy - they killed his family - he transferred his brain into the robot. He had a lot of ...
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Movie with a scene where animal robots were hunting humans
I was around 6-8 years old when I saw this movie 10 years ago, and I remember seeing alot of humans scattered around a mixture of plains and forests at night. Some locked themselves inside an ...
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90s Animation Teens Car Robot VR
Teens jump into car interior or perhaps engine bays. This serves them as a portal into virtual reality. There they themselves turn into robot versions of the cars and fight for some reason or another. ...
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Science fiction short story where a boy eats cereal with coffee creamer
I've looked everywhere but I cannot find this story. I read it in 2017 on a school education site, or some other school assignment. From what I remember, the story goes:
A boy wakes up in his house ...
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Little Lost Robot gamma ray?
In the Asimov story Little Lost Robot, a special edition of the NS-2 series robot (this individual called Nestor-10) with a modified First Law has been sworn at and told to "get $&%@$#%&^ ...
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Book with tall walking robots [closed]
Somewhere around the year 1988 to 1989 one of my teachers gave me a book to read. I cannot remember the name at all.
I feel like it was probably science fiction and literally the only detail I ...
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Story about robots and unemployment
This is an Analog story I think - I'm not sure from when (20th century, surely).
It has a contrived setup, involving massive unemployment caused by the existence of humanoid robots, solved by someone ...
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Short children's story about an android who thinks they're human who creates an android
The Tomato Surprise TV Tropes entry describes a story about an android who thinks they're human who creates an android.
In a short story in a children's book, the protagonist is a young prodigy ...
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Menacing Audio-Animatronic creatures in amusement park - boy nicknamed Pugsley
I read this short story in the 1980s, probably in Amazing or F&SF. An uncle is taking his nephew to an amusement park - the uncle doesn't see his nephew often, and finds him off-putting. Either ...
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Book about a prototype robot that dies every time it's shut down
I saw this once, in paperback in a bookstore in the early 1990s.
The book's blurb was that the robot was a prototype and every time it booted, the robot was born again, and every time it was shut down,...
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