Most Read This Week In Robots

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to take on human form but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to how they look.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Robots"

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)

The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot, #3)

Transformers, Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise

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The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

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August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony, #1)

My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

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Festergrimm (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #4)

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Quotes Tagged “Robots”

“ Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place whe ...more ”
― Donald A. Norman, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

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“ I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I’m a lion, that I will chase them. I will not deny that I have lions in me. I am the monster in the wood. I have wonders in my house of sugar. I have parts of myself I do not yet understand. I am not a Good Robot. To tell a story about a robot who wants to be human is a distraction. There is no difference. Alive is alive. There is only one verb that matters: to be. ”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast

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