The word "robot" comes from Karel Capek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New York1922; English edition published 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. [1] (http://www.uwec.edu/academic/curric/jerzdg/RUR/)
The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. Reprinted in five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: The Planet of the Double Sun, The Sunless World, Space War, Twin Worlds and Doomsday on Ajiat
Androids, fully organic in nature -- the products of genetic engineering -- and so human-like that they can only be distinguished by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not human. -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick
The drones Huey, Duey, and Louie, in Silent Running (1972). Notable as the first movie in which non-anthropomorphic robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees.
The "replicants" Roy Baty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora and Rachel Tyrell -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
AMEE the robot scout in the film Red Planet , who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship. (2000)
many robots, including David, the lead character, in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long[2] (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312280610/002-6426923-4848018?v=glance).
W1k1 or Wiki, the pocket-sized robot from the children's series Jason of Space Command (1979 - 1981) (a seeming spinoff of Space Academy)
Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)
1980s
Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV London Weekend Television children's magazine show The Saturday Banana in 1979 and then in his own show from 1980 to 1983
KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a non-humanoid robot in the form of a car (and its prototype, KARR [Knight Automated Roving Robot]), from Knight Rider (1982–1986)
The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984–2003)
The actual science of robotics really gained force with the creation of better computers during the decade, and great strides were taken, not only in the real world, but in the robotliterature and movies of the time.
The most famous movie robot of the fifties, however, is Robby the Robot from the movies "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and "The Invisible Boy".(1957) The familiar sound of Robby's inner "brain" working, as antennas twirled and switches clicked, was a familiar staple in science fiction throughout the 50s and 60s.
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Robots may be controlled directly by a human, such as remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robots, robotic arms, or shuttles, or may act according to their own decision making ability, provided by artificial intelligence.
Robots are also useful in environments which are unpleasant or dangerous for humans to work in, for example the cleaning of toxic waste, bomb disposal, work in space or underwater and in mining.
Robots are being considered for use in performing highly delicate, accurate surgery, or to allow a surgeon who is located remotely from their patient to perform a procedure using a robot controlled remotely.
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