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The Badniks, the E-Series robots, Dr. Eggman Nega, Captain Whisker, Emerl, Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Metal Knuckles, EggRobo, the Shadow Androids, Cubot, and Orbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Grodus, leader of the X-nauts, and the main antagonist of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
In the U.S. cartoon line, the Autobots were the descendants of a line of robots created as consumer goods by the Quintessons; the Decepticons, are descended instead from robots designed as military hardware. Other terms for the Autobots are Autorobot (in Italy), Autoboterna (in Sweden), Kibery (in Ukraine), and Robotrikim (in Israel).
Kelden Amadiro. Kelden Amadiro is a Spacer and the main antagonist in the novels The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. He is the head of the Robotics Institute on Aurora. He is known for being extremely against the expansion of Earth to other planets, and in the end even tries to destroy the Earth by speeding up the rate of radiation in its ...
Science fiction. R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, [ 1] a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). [ 2] The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové; [ 3] it introduced the word ...
Among the most iconic characters was the Astro Boy, who is taught human feelings such as love, courage and self-doubt. Culturally, robots in Japan became regarded as helpmates to their human counterparts. [67] The introduction of transistors into computers in the mid-1950s reduced their size and increased performance.
Articulated welding robots used in a factory are a type of industrial robot. The quadrupedal military robot Cheetah, an evolution of BigDog (pictured), was clocked as the world's fastest legged robot in 2012, beating the record set by an MIT bipedal robot in 1989. [ 1] A robot is a machine —especially one programmable by a computer —capable ...
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. [ 1] Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer science, robotics focuses on robotic automation algorithms. Other disciplines contributing to robotics ...
This is a list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. [ 1 ] Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization , [ 2 ] authoritarian governments, ruthless megacorporations , environmental disasters , [ 3 ] or other characteristics ...