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Crippled Martian Robot To Be Abandoned On The... →
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Robot Found Dead In Lake
From The Seattle Times:
PORTLAND — Authorities say a robot stolen a week ago from a Portland State University professor’s car has been found in Commonwealth Lake.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol unit retrieved the robot after a resident called to report seeing what was believed to be a generator in the water.
The 90-pound robot is 29 inches long, 19 inches high...
"they were surprised by the bright rays of...
The geography of Iceland - another key interest of TEOTRC’s editors - turns out to have relevance to our remit of documenting gigantic, monstrous, or robotic poignancy. Drangey or Drang Isle, which is the remnant of a 700,000 year old volcano, has a sad tale attached to it. Wikipedia recounts it thus:
An old legend says that two night-prowling giants, a man and a woman, were traversing...
"There was once a robot with a broken heart..."
Thus, apparently, begins David Lucas’ children’s book, “The Robot and the Bluebird”.
It is a fable about a robot whose heart is literally broken, and then, later, metaphorically broken, too. This seems like a beautiful story about love, loss, and sacrifice.
This review offers us the following synopsis:
A bluebird flying south that is caught in cold weather is invited...
"Sherry Turkle of MIT once fell in love with a...
This thread on Metafilter is quite the thing. But also make sure to read this comment.
We named our Roomba — Ricky — and all it did was vacuum the carpet and smash into things but it had these weird person-like qualities. When Ricky got stuck in a corner and started furiously backing up and rotating, backing up and rotating, we’d frown and stand watch over him, concerned:...
December 2010
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My Robot Heart Will Go On →
Thanks to Martin Hollis’ twitterings, this delightful robot duet of My Heart Will Go On came to our attention.
November 2010
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"The Fifth Law of Robotics"
The Fifth Law was introduced by Nikola Kesarovski in his short story “The Fifth Law of Robotics”. The Fifth Law says: “A robot must know it is a robot.”
October 2010
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