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List of robots in literature and film:
- The word "robot" comes from Karel Capek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) [written 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New York 1922; English edition published 1923]. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. [1] (http://www.uwec.edu/academic/curric/jerzdg/RUR/)
- Maidens made of gold, Bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer (circa 800 BC)
- The woman forged out of gold in The Kalevala
- The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, mentioned in the Talmud.
- A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' Steam Man of the Prairies[?] (1865)
- A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man[?] (1885)
- A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master[?] by Ambrose Bierce
- 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[?]
- The Martian robot in The Lost Machine[?] by John Wyndham (1932)
- Human cyborgs in Revolt of the Pedestrians[?] by David H. Keller[?] (1932)
- Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent[?] (1934)
- Helen O'Loy[?], from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
- Adam Link[?] of I, Robot by Eando Binder[?] (1938)
- Robots discover their "roots" in Robots Return[?] by Robert Moore Williams[?] (1938).
- Robot as murder witness in True Confession[?] by F. Orlin Tremaine[?] (1939)
- Robots by Isaac Asimov:
- The Iron Man[?], in the book by Ted Hughes (1968)
- The masculinist plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas -- The Stepford Wives[?] (1972) by Ira Levin
- Gort[?], in Farewell to the Master[?] by Harry Bates[?]
- Zane Gort[?], a robot novelist, of The Silver Eggheads[?] by Fritz Leiber
- The Humanoids[?], from a series by Jack Williamson[?]
- 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
- Doraemon in manga
- The Electric Grandmother[?] in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric[?] by Ray Bradbury
- The false Maria, in Metropolis (1927)
- Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (film version of Farewell to the Master)
- Robby, in Forbidden Planet (1956)
- The all-robot police force in THX-1138 (1971)
- 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 robots in Sleeper[?] (1973)
- The robotic gunfighters[?] in Westworld[?] (1973)
- C-3PO and R2-D2, in Star Wars (1977) and subsequent films
- V.I.N.C.E.N.T, B.O.B, Maximillian and the androids made out of humans -- The Black Hole[?] (1979)
- Ash in Alien (1979) and Bishop in Aliens
- The android in Alien Resurrection (1997)
- Replicants -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
- The robot assassin in The Terminator (1984) and sequels
- The little boy Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform in D.A.R.Y.L.[?]
- Johnny 5 in Short Circuit[?] (1986) and its sequel, Short Circuit 2[?]
- The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- The Iron Giant[?] (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
- Bicentennial Man[?] (1999) -- based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
- many robots, including David, the lead character, in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
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