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Jerion Watkins Title: Robotic Hand Author: Robert Heinlein
The fiction was about a man who was creating a robot. He wanted to control both hands simutaneously by using sight, sound, and touch. Therefore the robot needed to have eyes, ears, and a good brain. He wanted hands that are expensive and capable for microanalysis control. He also said for this project he would do some circuit designing.
This short story is about a child care robot, or nanny bot. The nanny bot made a combination of springs, levers, acoustic instruments, and by mean of tubes. She is connected to the house current system and begin to finish it's tasks. It have many different phonograph i.e a baby phonograph. The robot don't answer to sentences but to numbers.
As humans we have many curiosities. This is the way we learn. It’s how we learn from our mistakes and how to do something new. It’s how we expand in life. The short story that I read was about a curious robot. This story takes place in the distant future and there are more robots than there are humans. There is one unique robot one that likes to ask questions to learn things. So one day he’s talking to his friend and for the first time ever he sees a human and they get on the subject of humans being superior. His friend found them to be superior, but the curios robot thought differently. There were many things stacked against humans being superior, like the fact that they their quantity was decreasing, robots did everything, they were small, they didn’t really have a great memory capacity, and couldn’t do as much as the robots. Although all of this was true there was one thing that could beat all of this and that was that humans created them. In all of the work that they had done the outcome was for humans. His told him not to ask the human any questions or it would blow his circuits but he still did. So the robot asked the human what his purpose what was his purpose and the human couldn’t respond instead he became angry it was his circuits that blew. So I guess this time curiosity didn’t kill the cat.
This story is about some metal insects they stidied for aproximately 24 hours, which were made of metal that are symetrical and resemble the letter "Y". They have three wings that are anchored in a central thickened, each wing tapering to a point. They were black if you were directly on top of them but they reflect an olive green color
The story is about a 4th planet named Orpheus. An alien race , the Olma, came to Orpheus and told it's people that they'd carsh into Earth in several thousand years. The story follows Caps who travels through a world where humans are battling robot warriors.
This article is about a test pilot named Steve Austin who suffered a bad accident. In the accident he lost both of his legs and is trying to get bionic duplicates. To build the the bionic legs, the material they used were plastic, cerosium, dacron, and silastic. They were expiramenting with the new world of humans and bionic by combining live flesh and bone to electronics and steel. They also used vitallium,plastic, and tiny powerfull units of nuclear energy. While Steve was sleeping they applied pressure on the soles of his bionic feet and side pressures twisting his forces. Thet measured the flow of electrical energy from his brain down to the intricate nerve networks. The signal was boosted and went down to his joints that could bend, twist, and flex. This was successfull because they attached small motors that are spinning with nuclear energy which recived the signal and responded and sent more energy to the joints.
This story is about a inventor named Gallenger who doesn't know much about science but is good at building technology when he's drunk. One day while he was drunk he had built a robot named JOE and he was wondering why the robot was looking at itself in the mirror. A wealthy man named Brock came to look at his robot to seee if he works off the bugs. Brock was about to go bankrupt and he needed Gallenger help his business continue. Joe kept interupting their conversation but, he cant remember why Joe is bothering him. Then he remembered that Joe doesn't have a purpose but, he was drunk when he built Joe so he couldn't remember. So he has to get dunk again in order to remember his purpose and complete JOE. The reason why Gallenger built JOE was to be a can opener for his beer and soon Joe was complete.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillp K. Dick
This story is about the world in 2021 after another world war. The world war has killed millions of people and this drives entire species to extiction and thus mankind is sent off the planet. Companies start to build animals and humans to compensate for the devasting effects of the world war. Aliens from Mars offer their own andriods to humans. The fear of this andriods wreaking havoc the government bans them.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillp K. Dick
This story is about the world in 2021 after another world war. The world war has killed millions of people and this drives entire species to extiction and thus mankind is sent off the planet. Companies start to build animals and humans to compensate for the devasting effects of the world war. Aliens from Mars offer their own andriods to humans. The fear of this andriods wreaking havoc the government bans them.
this book is about an average man who lives on a farm. he has the talent of making weaponry but his works is limited, just like his environment. He falls in love but his plans soon change. He begins to get chased by a killer robot. He goes through more than any hero has and even saves America.
This fictional story is aboout a robot a new wepon system called Solo. Solo is a robot that is designed to replace human soldiers in battle. This robot is small humanoid he can fit in almost all military vechicles. He also can carry the smae stuff that a human can. He is controled by a brain that let's him learn just like a human brain does. He does a lot of mission.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe By: Douglass Adams
Summary Revised By: Christal Mack
This story is the continuation of the story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The main characters in the story are Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Zaphod Beeblebrox. They have left from their planet which is Magrathea when they were instantly attacked by a Vagon Ship. When they were attacked many things begin to go wrong they unable to use there escape vehichle and arthur accidently spilt a cup of tea on the computer causeing it to jam. Luckily, an ancestor of Zaphod's, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth saves them. While they are lost they go through many difficult tasks and run into a lot of problems. But in the end they return back to their home planet Magrathea. And everything goes back to normal.
Title Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
Author Steve Squyres
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Steve Squyers had thought up this mission during 1987. He saw this this from a conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. By being there he gained a rare look inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004 and knows about their findings firsthand. This book combines the factors of some young scientist and NASA's Mars space program. "Roving Mars offers a dramatic account of one of the most amazing adventures of our time."
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? it tells about the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which incredibly realistic androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by:Douglas Adams
The 'Guide' chronicles the adventures of Marvin the Paranoid Android, Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Trillian, and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Our motley crew of terrestrial, alien, and metal beings, roam the galaxy in a storm of mayhem and hilarity.
A magnetic anomaly under the surface of the moon pinpoints the location of the strangest artifact ever discovered by mankind. There is no possibility that this strange monolith is a natural formation. It is a deliberately buried calling card, left by an alien intelligence millions of years ago. This sets in motion a mission of extreme urgency: Get to Jupiter's moon Europa, and discover why this was the target of the pulse of electromagnetic energy from the monolith.
Five intrepid astronauts (3 in deep freeze), and their chatty computer HAL, embark on this adventure, the outcome of which will absolutely blow your mind! Hal is endowed with artificial intelligence, and the entire spacecraft is a robot under his control. Hal-class computers have never been known to make a mistake until...
Author:Jim Westergren Title:“Mr. Wilson, you are not supposed to know.”
This is about how this 17 year old boy is the only human on his plant andi is writing a letter hoping it reaches another civilization. It reaches earth and this man name Mr. Wilson reads it and is shocked to find out that information. He read about how robots were invented to help out the humans but ended up turning on them. Then the humans started to fight back and started to destroy PECR ( the robot making company built by Dred Nelson. Dred Nelson put all his money into the plant nd didn't want it to be destroyed so he created 30 new robots that had their laws altered. they were told to protect PERC at all cost. 29 of those robots were killed by human made weapons and the robots that had rebelled. The one remaining robot locked himself in the company and mass-produced more robots like him. He ordered them to kill all humans and this they did. They even killed the founder of the company Dred Nelson. The humans then built underground bases guarded by the old robots. It wasn't long till the newly produced robots got to them so they escasped and built another one. this one protected them form the gases thrown down. Then it all stopped and it was quiet for a year striaght. The robots never told them what happened until some robots went out and came back with some humans. Then they found out that the humans weren't human at all. They then let gas into the base. The only human whos name is Freddy Ivanov was the only one left on that planet because his fathr built him his own base before he died. He also left freddy his own personal robot to look after him. The letter was orbiting around the sun forr 800 years. His members then said that he was not suppose to know about this.
The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune, Book 3) By Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson,the people were having problems on their planet. To solve this problem they built machines that could think to make everything easier.
This sci-fi novel is about how the world will be with robots in the near future. Scientist discuss the effects of robots in the future. Also a world without humans is discussed
The novel war of the worlds by HG Wells is about an invasion on England by aliens from Mars. In the novel the aliens cause havock and mass destruction on mankind. All the things they tried had failed and the survival of mankind looks pretty bad leaving everybody in serious doubt, but the aliens are thwarted when the main character finds out that the red weeds and the martians are dying due to all the bacteria on earth.
This story is about a robot/philosipher named Robbi-999XHA.In this story the child sunny owns robbi and wants him to do many thins for him.Then he learns about Asimov and his laws and how he needed to treat his robot better.Until one day robbi got hurt playin criket.But he was ok and they explained alot about robots and how they work.
The fiction is called a robot that wanted to be a human. He was a hunting dog. This dig was made to protect his owner to his death. He could destroy a human to a ten fold this is as much as a human could do to human. The dogs owner was Miss Cathy Bergman. She workerd as the executive for a large weapons company. They made him dress like a human because it weird to see a naked robot.
This novel about a dog and a robot and their relationships. After the robot rusted and was not able to move in the sand the dog had to return alone to the life they shared. But he cant let go of their friendship.The dog tries to replace him by making and losing a series of friends.But for the robot who is lying rusting on the beach he only feels better in his dreams.
This book is based on the life of a family with two teenage kids and an old robot. This family has moved out of their old neighborhood and noticed the difference in there robot from evveryone elses. Even though the loved their robot, they know it was time for an upgrade.They have been searching for the perfect one but he found them his name was eager and he was a test robot that was ready to work.
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Jerion Watkins
Title: Robotic Hand
Author: Robert Heinlein
The fiction was about a man who was creating a robot. He wanted to control both hands simutaneously by using sight, sound, and touch. Therefore the robot needed to have eyes, ears, and a good brain. He wanted hands that are expensive
and capable for microanalysis control. He also said for this project he would do some circuit designing.
Psychonoponic Nurse
David H. Keller
This short story is about a child care robot, or nanny bot. The nanny bot made a combination of springs, levers, acoustic instruments, and by mean of tubes. She is connected to the house current system and begin to finish it's tasks. It have many different phonograph i.e a baby phonograph. The robot don't answer to sentences but to numbers.
Jim Westergren
The Curious Robot
As humans we have many curiosities. This is the way we learn. It’s how we learn from our mistakes and how to do something new. It’s how we expand in life. The short story that I read was about a curious robot.
This story takes place in the distant future and there are more robots than there are humans. There is one unique robot one that likes to ask questions to learn things. So one day he’s talking to his friend and for the first time ever he sees a human and they get on the subject of humans being superior. His friend found them to be superior, but the curios robot thought differently. There were many things stacked against humans being superior, like the fact that they their quantity was decreasing, robots did everything, they were small, they didn’t really have a great memory capacity, and couldn’t do as much as the robots. Although all of this was true there was one thing that could beat all of this and that was that humans created them. In all of the work that they had done the outcome was for humans. His told him not to ask the human any questions or it would blow his circuits but he still did. So the robot asked the human what his purpose what was his purpose and the human couldn’t respond instead he became angry it was his circuits that blew. So I guess this time curiosity didn’t kill the cat.
Ferleria Hemingway
Henry Brooks
Metal Insects
By:Stanislaw Lem
This story is about some metal insects they stidied for aproximately 24 hours, which were made of metal that are symetrical and resemble the letter "Y". They have three wings that are anchored in a central thickened, each wing tapering to a point. They were black if you were directly on top of them but they reflect an olive green color
Robota
By Doug Chinng and Orson Scott Card
The story is about a 4th planet named Orpheus. An alien race , the Olma, came to Orpheus and told it's people that they'd carsh into Earth in several thousand years. The story follows Caps who travels through a world where humans are battling robot warriors.
Title: Bionic Legs
Author: Martin Caidin
This article is about a test pilot named Steve Austin who suffered a bad accident. In the accident he lost both of his legs and is trying to get bionic duplicates. To build the the bionic legs, the material they used were plastic, cerosium, dacron, and silastic. They were expiramenting with the new world of humans and bionic by combining live flesh and bone to electronics and steel. They also used vitallium,plastic, and tiny powerfull units of nuclear energy. While Steve was sleeping they applied pressure on the soles of his bionic feet and side pressures twisting his forces. Thet measured the flow of electrical energy from his brain down to the intricate nerve networks. The signal was boosted and went down to his joints that could bend, twist, and flex. This was successfull because they attached small motors that are spinning with nuclear energy which recived the signal and responded and sent more energy to the joints.
The Proud Robot
by:Lewis Padgett
This story is about a inventor named Gallenger who doesn't know much about science but is good at building technology when he's drunk. One day while he was drunk he had built a robot named JOE and he was wondering why the robot was looking at itself in the mirror. A wealthy man named Brock came to look at his robot to seee if he works off the bugs. Brock was about to go bankrupt and he needed Gallenger help his business continue. Joe kept interupting their conversation but, he cant remember why Joe is bothering him. Then he remembered that Joe doesn't have a purpose but, he was drunk when he built Joe so he couldn't remember. So he has to get dunk again in order to remember his purpose and complete JOE. The reason why Gallenger built JOE was to be a can opener for his beer and soon Joe was complete.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By Phillp K. Dick
This story is about the world in 2021 after another world war. The world war has killed millions of people and this drives entire species to extiction and thus mankind is sent off the planet. Companies start to build animals and humans to compensate for the devasting effects of the world war.
Aliens from Mars offer their own andriods to humans. The fear of this andriods wreaking havoc the government bans them.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By Phillp K. Dick
This story is about the world in 2021 after another world war. The world war has killed millions of people and this drives entire species to extiction and thus mankind is sent off the planet. Companies start to build animals and humans to compensate for the devasting effects of the world war.
Aliens from Mars offer their own andriods to humans. The fear of this andriods wreaking havoc the government bans them.
Ben and the Robotic Plot
by Paul Radwan
this book is about an average man who lives on a farm. he has the talent of making weaponry but his works is limited, just like his environment. He falls in love but his plans soon change. He begins to get chased by a killer robot. He goes through more than any hero has and even saves America.
Charles Best
Title: Weapon
Author: Robert Mason
This fictional story is aboout a robot a new wepon system called Solo. Solo is a robot that is designed to replace human soldiers in battle. This robot is small humanoid he can fit in almost all military vechicles. He also can carry the smae stuff that a human can. He is controled by a brain that let's him learn just like a human brain does. He does a lot of mission.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
By: Douglass Adams
Summary Revised By: Christal Mack
This story is the continuation of the story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The main characters in the story are Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Zaphod Beeblebrox. They have left from their planet which is Magrathea when they were instantly attacked by a Vagon Ship. When they were attacked many things begin to go wrong they unable to use there escape vehichle and arthur accidently spilt a cup of tea on the computer causeing it to jam. Luckily, an ancestor of Zaphod's, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth saves them.
While they are lost they go through many difficult tasks and run into a lot of problems. But in the end they return back to their home planet Magrathea. And everything goes back to normal.
Summary by Diandra Coleman
Title
Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
Author Steve Squyres
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Steve Squyers had thought up this mission during 1987. He saw this this from a conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. By being there he gained a rare look inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004 and knows about their findings firsthand.
This book combines the factors of some young scientist and NASA's Mars space program. "Roving Mars offers a dramatic account of one of the most amazing adventures of our time."
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? it tells about the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which incredibly realistic androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by:Douglas Adams
The 'Guide' chronicles the adventures of Marvin the Paranoid Android, Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Trillian, and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Our motley crew of terrestrial, alien, and metal beings, roam the galaxy in a storm of mayhem and hilarity.
A Space Odyssey
By: Arthur C. Clarke
A magnetic anomaly under the surface of the moon pinpoints the location of the strangest artifact ever discovered by mankind. There is no possibility that this strange monolith is a natural formation. It is a deliberately buried calling card, left by an alien intelligence millions of years ago. This sets in motion a mission of extreme urgency: Get to Jupiter's moon Europa, and discover why this was the target of the pulse of electromagnetic energy from the monolith.
Five intrepid astronauts (3 in deep freeze), and their chatty computer HAL, embark on this adventure, the outcome of which will absolutely blow your mind! Hal is endowed with artificial intelligence, and the entire spacecraft is a robot under his control. Hal-class computers have never been known to make a mistake until...
Author:Jim Westergren
Title:“Mr. Wilson, you are not supposed to know.”
This is about how this 17 year old boy is the only human on his plant andi is writing a letter hoping it reaches another civilization. It reaches earth and this man name Mr. Wilson reads it and is shocked to find out that information. He read about how robots were invented to help out the humans but ended up turning on them. Then the humans started to fight back and started to destroy PECR ( the robot making company built by Dred Nelson. Dred Nelson put all his money into the plant nd didn't want it to be destroyed so he created 30 new robots that had their laws altered. they were told to protect PERC at all cost. 29 of those robots were killed by human made weapons and the robots that had rebelled. The one remaining robot locked himself in the company and mass-produced more robots like him. He ordered them to kill all humans and this they did. They even killed the founder of the company Dred Nelson. The humans then built underground bases guarded by the old robots. It wasn't long till the newly produced robots got to them so they escasped and built another one. this one protected them form the gases thrown down. Then it all stopped and it was quiet for a year striaght. The robots never told them what happened until some robots went out and came back with some humans. Then they found out that the humans weren't human at all. They then let gas into the base. The only human whos name is Freddy Ivanov was the only one left on that planet because his fathr built him his own base before he died. He also left freddy his own personal robot to look after him. The letter was orbiting around the sun forr 800 years. His members then said that he was not suppose to know about this.
The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune, Book 3)
By Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson,the people were having problems on their planet. To solve this problem they built machines that could think to make everything easier.
Bodies Of Tommorow
Sherryl Vint
This sci-fi novel is about how the world will be with robots in the near future. Scientist discuss the effects of robots in the future. Also a world without humans is discussed
WAR OF THE WORLDS
The novel war of the worlds by HG Wells is about an invasion on England by aliens from Mars. In the novel the aliens cause havock and mass destruction on mankind. All the things they tried had failed and the survival of mankind looks pretty bad leaving everybody in serious doubt, but the aliens are thwarted when the main character finds out that the red weeds and the martians are dying due to all the bacteria on earth.
By: Dilip M. Salwi
Tiltle:My Robot Robbi
This story is about a robot/philosipher named Robbi-999XHA.In this story the child sunny owns robbi and wants him to do many thins for him.Then he learns about Asimov and his laws and how he needed to treat his robot better.Until one day robbi got hurt playin criket.But he was ok and they explained alot about robots and how they work.
The fiction is called a robot that wanted to be a human. He was a hunting dog. This dig was made to protect his owner to his death. He could destroy a human to a ten fold this is as much as a human could do to human. The dogs owner was Miss Cathy Bergman. She workerd as the executive for a large weapons company. They made him dress like a human because it weird to see a naked robot.
By: Alan McNevin’s
Title:Robot Dreams
Author:Sara Varon
This novel about a dog and a robot and their relationships. After the robot rusted and was not able to move in the sand the dog had to return alone to the life they shared. But he cant let go of their friendship.The dog tries to replace him by making and losing a series of friends.But for the robot who is lying rusting on the beach he only feels better in his dreams.
Andrew Serchion
Title: Eager
Author:Helen Fox
This book is based on the life of a family with two teenage kids and an old robot. This family has moved out of their old neighborhood and noticed the difference in there robot from evveryone elses. Even though the loved their robot, they know it was time for an upgrade.They have been searching for the perfect one but he found them his name was eager and he was a test robot that was ready to work.
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