JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Mind you, he didn't create actual robots, he merely made the word to use for them. That said, there are words that have the roughly same meaning, "automaton" being one of them.
"Metamorphers, camouflaged automatons"
btw why is this in Toys?
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Mind you, he didn't create actual robots, he merely made the word to use for them. That said, there are words that have the roughly same meaning, "automaton" being one of them.
"Metamorphers, camouflaged automatons"
btw why is this in Toys?
RAR wrote:This belongs in "General Discussion".
Jason5billion wrote:He's the one who coined the term robot
I don't really have anything to add, I just quoted this because it's the best thing I have read so far today.RAR wrote:Imagine a race of quasi-sentient tools who arrive from space and start demolishing your planet so they can rebuild it they won't negotiate they won't talk to you - they don't care about you as you are outside their "3 laws" and so they don't even really see you - whole species both underdeveloped biospheres and whole civilizations were wiped out by billions of self-replicating drones with no supervision. to make the galaxy a safe place for humans.
Rodimus Prime wrote:I don't really have anything to add, I just quoted this because it's the best thing I have read so far today.RAR wrote:Imagine a race of quasi-sentient tools who arrive from space and start demolishing your planet so they can rebuild it they won't negotiate they won't talk to you - they don't care about you as you are outside their "3 laws" and so they don't even really see you - whole species both underdeveloped biospheres and whole civilizations were wiped out by billions of self-replicating drones with no supervision. to make the galaxy a safe place for humans.
And I like a lot of Asimov's work.
And Transformers can't/shouldn't be considered "robots."
Jason5billion wrote:I consider them robots even though they're nothing but toys. They look robotic, and that's good enough for me.
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