The Soul of the RobotThe Soul of the Robot

2011-11-142011-11-14 Barrington J. BayleyBarrington J. Bayley

The Soul of the Robot Book 1 Barrington J. Bayley. 'And why should I seek this shack?' The other shrugged. 'You're a robot, aren't you? There aren't many places a robot can get kicks.' The dealer turned away, signifying that the ...

Author: Barrington J. Bayley

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9780575102071

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He was unique. Alone in a world that did not understand him, he tested the super powers of his mind and body. More than a machine, but less than a man, he searched restlessly for the truth. Before his quest was done, he had died and been reborn, had fought his way from a grim dungeon to a royal throne. Jasperodus, the only super-robot to have been granted consciousness, must decide whether to share his soul-possessing secrets with the other robots or to betray them to save mankind.

The Alien OnesThe Alien Ones

2014-09-302014-09-30 Leo BrettLeo Brett

It was difficult to deny that many robots had a certain welldefined but rudimentary personality. Whether or not that personality could survive the disolution of the mechanical body in the same way that the soul of man could survive ...

Author: Leo Brett

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781473203860

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Life on the pioneer planet Orkol was harsh and lonely. Earth settlers found a civilisation of decay, a frustrating shortage of women, outdated machinery and plagues of vicious rodents. The dawn of the green suns gave only a thin eerie light. And the mineral Orkolite produced vibrations that could destroy a planet or shatter a human brain.

The Soul Is a Stranger in This WorldThe Soul Is a Stranger in This World

2020-01-072020-01-07 Micah MattixMicah Mattix

There may be “Robot apartments” in “Howl,” but elsewhere there are also “robot ravings,” “robot faces,” “robot signals,” “Robot towers,” “illustrious robots,” “robot obsession” “robot sofas,” “robot proliferation,” “Robot airfields,” ...

Author: Micah Mattix

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781532660153

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The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet “as a man speaking to men,” as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like André du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.

Robots and ArtRobots and Art

2016-05-042016-05-04 Damith HerathDamith Herath

7 The Blind Robot (Louis Philippe Demers) consists of a set of two-mechanical arms mounted onto a base and bolted to a table. Visitors are invited to interact with the robot by sitting in a chair as the robot delicately explores the ...

Author: Damith Herath

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9789811003219

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The first compendium on robotic art of its kind, this book explores the integration of robots into human society and our attitudes, fears and hopes in a world shared with autonomous machines. It raises questions about the benefits, risks and ethics of the transformative changes to society that are the consequence of robots taking on new roles alongside humans. It takes the reader on a journey into the world of the strange, the beautiful, the uncanny and the daring – and into the minds and works of some of the world’s most prolific creators of robotic art. Offering an in-depth look at robotic art from the viewpoints of artists, engineers and scientists, it presents outstanding works of contemporary robotic art and brings together for the first time some of the most influential artists in this area in the last three decades. Starting from a historical review, this transdisciplinary work explores the nexus between robotic research and the arts and examines the diversity of robotic art, the encounter with robotic otherness, machine embodiment and human–robot interaction. Stories of difficulties, pitfalls and successes are recalled, characterising the multifaceted collaborations across the diverse disciplines required to create robotic art. Although the book is primarily targeted towards researchers, artists and students in robotics, computer science and the arts, its accessible style appeals to anyone intrigued by robots and the arts.

The American RobotThe American Robot

20202020 Dustin A. AbnetDustin A. Abnet

... War I seemed like the final stage of the same disease: the decay of the soul in the name of mechanical efficiency. ... Rossum's scientists, managers, and engineers proclaim that the robot heralds a new post-scarcity world in which, ...

Author: Dustin A. Abnet

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ISBN: 9780226692715

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"As Dustin Abnet shows, the robot-whether automaton, Mechanical Turk, cyborg, or iPhone, whether humanized machine or mechanized human being-has long been a fraught embodiment of human fears. Abnet investigates, moreover, how the discourse of the robot has reinforced social and economic inequalities as well as fantasies of social control. "Robots" as a trope are not necessarily mechanical but are rather embodiments of quasi humanity, exhibiting a mix of human and nonhuman characteristics. Such figures are troubling to dominant discourses, which cannot easily assimilate them or identify salient boundaries. The robot lurks beneath the fears that fracture society"--

Nature Futures 2Nature Futures 2

2014-09-092014-09-09 Colin SullivanColin Sullivan

“Because your theory denies the existence of the robot soul. In the robot's ability to love there is more sanctity than in all your standard deviations and precision mechanics. Love is a greater monument than a space elevator.

Author: Colin Sullivan

Publisher: Tor Books

ISBN: 9781466879980

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100 writers - including Neal Asher, Elizabeth Bear, Gregory Benford, Tobias Buckell, Brenda Cooper, Kathryn Cramer, David Langford, Tanith Lee, Ken Liu, Nick Mamatas, Norman Spinrad, Ian Stewart, Rachel Swirsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Ian Watson - offer their take on what the future will look like in Nature Futures 2, an anthology of sci-fi short stories from the award-winning Futures column in the science journal Nature.

Living with RobotsLiving with Robots

2017-11-062017-11-06 Paul DumouchelPaul Dumouchel

In Japan, the most popular works in which robots figure prominently are, on the whole, more concerned with the ethical ... The pilot is at once the soul and the brain of the machine, and the robot transforms in its turn the person who ...

Author: Paul Dumouchel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674971738

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Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. As robots engage with people in socially meaningful ways, social robotics probes the nature of the human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate.

Anatomy of a RobotAnatomy of a Robot

2014-07-072014-07-07 Despina KakoudakiDespina Kakoudaki

an older version of the embodied soul, nostalgically, intuitively, or allegorically reframed in modernity in figures that are purely mechanical in their embodiment. What narratives of artificial people can teach us about popular ...

Author: Despina Kakoudaki

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9780813562179

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Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people’s main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person.