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| robot rage survivors: Companion Robot Fouad Sabry, 2025-01-21 In a rapidly evolving world where technology intertwines with daily life, understanding the role of companion robots is crucial. Companion Robot delves into the fascinating intersection of robotics and human interaction, providing insights that resonate with professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike. This book is more than just a resource; it’s a gateway to understanding how companion robots enhance lives, particularly for the elderly and disabled, making it an invaluable addition to your collection. Chapters Brief Overview: 1: Companion robot: Explore the fundamental concepts and types of companion robots shaping our lives. 2: Assistive technology: Discover how these robots serve as pivotal tools for enhancing independence. 3: Pet: Examine the emotional connections formed through robotic pets, enhancing companionship. 4: Virtual pet: Learn about digital companions and their role in emotional support and engagement. 5: Artificial human companion: Investigate the advancements in creating robots that mimic human interaction. 6: Cynthia Breazeal: Delve into the work of this pioneer in social robotics and her contributions. 7: Social robot: Understand the functions of social robots in various environments, from homes to hospitals. 8: Therapy dog: Analyze the impact of robotic therapy dogs in providing comfort and support. 9: Humancentered computing: Discover how design principles create userfriendly and effective robots. 10: Robotic pet: Investigate the technological features that make robotic pets popular among users. 11: Human–robot interaction: Explore the dynamics of relationships formed between humans and robots. 12: Paro (robot): Learn about Paro, a therapeutic robot designed to engage and soothe patients. 13: Animalassisted therapy: Examine the synergy between robotics and traditional animal therapy. 14: Personal robot: Discover how personal robots are tailored to meet individual user needs. 15: Home automation for the elderly and disabled: Understand how robots enhance safety and comfort at home. 16: Tamagotchi effect: Investigate the psychological phenomenon that drives attachment to virtual pets. 17: Sex robot: Explore the controversial topic of sex robots and their implications on relationships. 18: Domestic robot: Delve into the practical applications of robots in everyday household tasks. 19: Pepper (robot): Learn about Pepper and its role in fostering emotional connections with users. 20: Nadine Social Robot: Discover Nadine's unique features that enable meaningful social interactions. 21: Socially assistive robot: Analyze how these robots support mental wellbeing and social engagement. This comprehensive exploration of companion robots not only enlightens but also inspires action. Whether you're a professional, a student, or simply curious, this book offers knowledge that far exceeds its cost. Equip yourself with understanding and become part of the future where humans and robots coexist harmoniously. |
| robot rage survivors: The Author's Wife Vs. The Giant Robot Adam-Troy Castro, 2022-03-15 A silent leviathan deals daily death to the inhabitants of a typical American city... A man sees visions of his next incarnation as a crustacean... A lovelorn junk collector seeks a time traveler's assistance in a matter of the heart... A strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, is found by people less promising than a pair of kindly Kansan farmers... ...take a taste of the latest from an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror. |
| robot rage survivors: Years of Rage D. J. Mulloy, 2021-11-30 Years of Rage is a powerful and revealing examination of the history of white supremacy in America from the 1920s to the present. It explores the various groups that have operated in the United States during this time, from the Klan to the alt-right, the ongoing dangers they pose to the country, and their deep roots within American society. |
| robot rage survivors: When Worlds Rage D. Shane Burton, 2004-06 |
| robot rage survivors: Letter to Survivors Gebe, 2019-02-19 A haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route. Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then get stranger and stranger... Drawn by the famed cartoonish and Charlie Hebdo contributor Gébé, and never before available in English, Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, a scathing, impassioned send-up of consumerist excess and nuclear peril: funnier—and scarier—than ever. |
| robot rage survivors: Good Robot, Bad Robot Jo Ann Oravec, 2022-09-30 This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots). It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as “killer robots” and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies. |
| robot rage survivors: Art Therapy with Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse Jenny Murphy, 2003-09-02 Contains a range of illustrative case material from both individual and group therapy. The book addresses important issues faced by professionals. |
| robot rage survivors: The Survivor Program Glenn Koerner, 2011-12 Computer programmer Ian Daniels has designed his latest masterpiece, the Survivor Program. Able to boost the creativity and cunning, its purpose is to help a government-built assassin droid, SHARA, survive suicide missions behind enemy lines. But when SHARA breaks out, killing everyone in its way, it comes to Ian for help.--Provided by publisher. |
| robot rage survivors: Rage Arvid Nelson, 2011 Earth has been devastated by a collision with an asteroid, and only a tiny fraction of the population survives, under the rules of a military dictatorship. But when a scientist studying the mutations created in the wake of the disaster discovers that the world's new leaders are hiding a terrible secret, she has no choice but to fight back.--P. [4] of cover. |
| robot rage survivors: Steel Defender: A Post Apocalyptic Robot Science Fiction Novel (Rusted Wasteland Book 2) Cameron Coral, 2023-08-25 Continue the heartwarming robot sci fi series by award-nominated author Cameron Coral… A timid robot will risk everything to protect his favorite human in a post-apocalyptic world. Block, the CleanerBot who risked it all to safeguard a baby girl across the war-torn wastelands, thinks he's finally found a safe haven for Wally. But the humans he's entrusted with her care won't let him visit her, leaving him to follow his cleaning routines and miss her more every day. Robot Found Family in Danger When the humans are forced to surrender Wally to militaristic SoldierBots or face extermination, Block will do anything to keep her safe… even if that means aligning with a former enemy, a colossal Mech, and their motley army of renegade robots. Together, they must face down dangerous SoldierBots, fleets of attack drones, and WarBots that will stop at nothing to claim the child in this action-packed science fiction adventure. Wally holds the key to humanity's survival—or their doom—in this thought-provoking work of speculative fiction. An Emotional Science Fiction Journey If you enjoy character-driven science fiction with heart and page-turning action, then you'll love the second book of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi series and its robot protagonist. Block's unwavering dedication to his found family will tug at your heartstrings as he navigates the challenges of a world where the line between man and machine has never been more blurred. Embark on an emotional science fiction journey like no other with Steel Defender, the sequel to the award-finalist Steel Guardian. This heartwarming science fiction tale of unlikely friendship and robot redemption will keep you on the edge of your seat, rooting for Block and his allies every step of the way. Steel Defender is the second novel in the Rusted Wasteland complete series about a robot protecting found family amid a human vs. robot war. For fans of JN Chaney, M.R. Forbes, and Kyla Stone, this is a hope punk sci fi book that is heartwarming and full of futuristic action. |
| robot rage survivors: The Repressed Memory Epidemic Mark Pendergrast, 2017-10-13 This book offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of repressed memories. It provides a history and context that documents key events that have had an effect on the way that modern psychology and psychotherapy have developed. Chapters provide an overview of how human memory functions and works and examine facets of the misguided theories behind repressed memory. The book also examines the science of the brain, the reconstructive nature of human memory, and studies of suggestibility. It traces the present-day resurgence of a belief in repressed memories in the general public as well as among many clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, “body workers,” and others who offer counseling. It concludes with legal and professional recommendations and advice for individuals who deal with or have dealt with the psychotherapeutic practice of repressed memory therapy. Topics featured in this text include: The modern diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (once called MPD) The “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s and its relation to repressed memory therapy. The McMartin Preschool Case and the “Day Care Sex Panic.” A historical overview from the Great Witch Craze to Sigmund Freud’s theories, spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. An exploration of the cultural context that produced the repressed memory epidemic of the 1990s. The repressed memory movement as a religious sect or cult. The Repressed Memory Epidemic will be of interest to researchers and clinicians as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of psychology, sociology, cultural studies, religion, and anthropology. |
| robot rage survivors: Rage Against the Machines Mike Wild, 2005-06-16 War is a dirty job - too dirty for humans! The ABC Warriors - hard-drinking robotic soldiers designed for combat in the worst Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical theatres of war. They are a tough fighting force that has slipped into legend. Led by the fearless Sergeant Hammerstein, the elite unit of warriors carry out the worst suicide missions available. When the tide of war turns against them on the Martian battlefield and all hope of victory slips away, the ABC Warriors are forced to disband their unit. They must go separate ways in a final, desperate attempt to save mankind from the alien terror. |
| robot rage survivors: Robogenesis Daniel H. Wilson, 2015-03-17 It’s been three years since the global uprising of the world's robots, three long years in which ordinary people waged a guerilla war that saved humankind from the brink of annihilation. But a horrific new enemy has emerged, and the resistance is called to fight once again. And in a world where humanity and technology are pushed to the breaking point, their one hope may reside with their former enemy—Archos R-14. |
| robot rage survivors: Have Robot, Will Travel—A Byron Preiss Robot Mystery Alexander C. Irvine, 2023-11-21 From Alexander C. Irvine, the Locus Award-winning author of A SCATTERING OF JADES, comes a thrilling new robot mystery set in the world of the late SF Grand Master and beloved author, Isaac Asimov. Exiled to the colony Nova Levis, roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess have tried to make their best of their situation, after exposing an anti-robot conspiracy on Earth five years before that cost them their jobs and their freedom. But all that is about to change. . . A human has been murdered on Kopernik, a space station orbiting the Earth, and all the clues point toward a robot as the killer. But how can that be, when robots are programmed to never bring harm to humans? It’s a familiar situation for Derec and Ariel—the sort of mystery that led to their current status as political pariahs. Still, not even an exiled robot expert can turn down an opportunity to add his expertise to the investigation, and before too long, Derec is on his way to Kopernik. Ariel, meanwhile, has a mystery of her own to unravel. With the help of old friends—and potentially new enemies— Derec searches for the identity of a killer, unaware that Ariel is walking directly into the center of the web of intrigue.... |
| robot rage survivors: Revolution 19 Gregg Rosenblum, 2013-01-08 From the creators of Homeland and the Final Destination films, Revolution 19 is a cinematic thriller unlike anything else. At first they called it system-wide malfunctions when the robots stopped fighting at exactly 2:15 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, August 17, 2051. For twenty-two hours the battlefields were silent. Then when the bots began killing again, now targeting their human commanders, they shook their heads and called it fatal programming errors. When, a day later, the skies over cities on six continents grew dark with warships, they began to understand. And when the bombs rained down and legions of bot foot soldiers marched into the burning ruins, killing any humans who resisted and dragging away the rest, they finally called it what it was: revolution. Only a few escaped the robot war. Those who did lived in secret freeposts, hiding from the robot armies determined to control the human race. Nick, Kevin, and Cass are some of the lucky ones—they live with their parents in a secret human community outside the robot-controlled Cities. But when the bots discover their village and attack, the teens are forced to run. Determined to find out if their parents are alive, the three siblings venture into the heart of the robot City, where one misstep could be their last. |
| robot rage survivors: Know My Name Chanel Miller, 2020-08-18 A NEW YORK TIMES READERS’ CHOICE BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in PEOPLE | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | WASHINGTON POST | NPR | PARADE | TIME |GLAMOUR | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | MARIE CLAIRE | ELLE | FORTUNE Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful. —Washington Post Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter. (The Wrap). Her story of trauma and transcendence illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicting a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shining with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic. |
| robot rage survivors: I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die Sarah J. Robinson, 2021-05-11 A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect. |
| robot rage survivors: The Kalmiera Mark Garnett, 2023-03-15 A galactic war has gripped the Milky Way. The Human race formed an alliance with the Anubis, Horus, and Jurassic people against their common enemies, the Kalmiera, Mantis and Arachnids. Each side fights for their survival, using nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, as well as genetically growing of troops in tank wombs to keep fighting the war. The war spills into countless solar systems as each side works to gain foothold on moons and planets in the galaxy. This story takes place in the Cygnus Loop System where the Antman people have been fighting the Kalmiera, Mantis and Arachnids for generations. |
| robot rage survivors: Mage Against the Machine Shaun Barger, 2018-10-30 Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie. The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together. Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from twentieth-century human life: mage-crafted replica Chuck Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But he’s also tasked with a higher calling—to maintain the Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage King’s army, Nik has finally found what he always wanted—a purpose. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans weren’t nuked into oblivion—they’re still alive. Not only that, outside the domes a war rages between the last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences. Outside the dome, unprepared and on the run, Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human Resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier by the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a human—her cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster, smarter, and are the only things that give her a fighting chance against the artificial beings bent on humanity’s eradication. Now Nik faces an impossible decision: side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem and the humans—and risk endangering everything he knows and loves? |
| robot rage survivors: The Unbroken Soul Henri Parens, Harold P. Blum, Salman Akhtar, 2008-02-28 The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how, and of what, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with and recovering from trauma. These authors, several of whom themselves were subjected to severe trauma, address the matter of resilience from the vantage point of their own personal and clinical experiences. |
| robot rage survivors: Experiential Treatment For PTSD M. Katherine Hudgins, Phd, TEP, 2002-06-07 This book introduces something substantially new...original, clinically valid and well-thought out ideas which have been extensively ëtestedí in workshops conducted internationally over the last decade...a great book! Adam Blatner, MD The author presents the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of Psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. A step-by-step guide for using experiential methods safely, the author first explains the theoretical foundations of TSM, research and theories on trauma, and experiential psychotherapy as a basis for understanding its development. Throughout, clinical action structures and advanced intervention modules for using experiential methods are presented. Each chapter contains active vignettes and case examples to demonstrate the process and progress of the spiral technique. |
| robot rage survivors: The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative Jean-Michel Ganteau, 2022-12-27 This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an “ecology of attention” (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention. |
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| robot rage survivors: The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., 2014-09-25 #1 New York Times bestseller “Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. |
| robot rage survivors: Rage at God Anneliese Widman, 1998 A unique perspective on a difficult, controversial subject. Through three riveting human stories, Anneliese Widman demonstrates that self-responsibility and spirituality imprint our traumatic events to illuminate our path and our purification. Once this realization is reached, Widman proves rage at God turns into love for God. |
| robot rage survivors: Metagalaxy Russell Scott, 2012-01-23 METAGALAXY Conclusions... Metagalaxy Conclusions is a continuation of the Metagalaxy where SamSon is forced to face his life and the choices he has made as he takes it upon himself to help all. SamSon finds out that everything and anything is still possible in this Metagalaxy, even becoming conventional. SamSon inspires others to step up and become moral as they seek out the greatest sources of evil to confront it and destroy it. They know that evil in the Metagalaxy is still indeed strong, smart, and attempting to take over. Love, honor, and loyalty are the keys to help this Metagalaxy survive. And if SamSon can convince others and himself that he is still their defender and needed, he will make sure it does. But his own power might lead to the Metagalaxy’s destruction. |
| robot rage survivors: Blood of the Cosmos Kevin J. Anderson, 2015-06-02 Blood of the Cosmos: the second book in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Shadows trilogy. An epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire. The intertwined plots, overflowing with colorful ideas, a large cast of characters, and complex storylines, span dozens of solar systems, alien races, and strange creatures. As the second book of the trilogy opens, the humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies in Book One, are desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of antimatter of the Shana Rei. The mysterious alien Gardeners, who had helped them previously, turn out to be a disaster in disguise and because of them, the world tree forests are again in danger. The allies believing they have found a way to stop their dreaded enemies, a new weapon is tested, but it's a horrible failure, throwing the human race and its allies to the brink of extinction. |
| robot rage survivors: The Flower of Myfous 2 - Pleasure Lands Peter Thompson, 2016-04-26 The sentient computer virus causes more trouble for the twenty planets that make up the human elite. It embarks on a method using an intelligent bug queen that sends her worker and soldier bugs to take over a planet that is lightly populated after a long war of attrition. Once again, the earthman Jonathan Peel is sent to this planet by Myfous along with a small band of soldiers to find out what is happening. He finds that new queens are pregnant with super bug soldiers, modified by Pit, that are to be an invasion force to attack all human planets. Can Jonathan and his team stop this? |
| robot rage survivors: Directors in British and Irish Cinema Robert Murphy, 2019-07-25 A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland. |
| robot rage survivors: Randolph Runner David Dvorkin, 2020-10-15 Butler, warrior, moral philosopher, robot. Randolph is all that and more. Randolph is the prized product of Superior Domestics, a Silicon Valley firm dedicated to producing robot servants for people who grew up watching British period costume dramas on PBS. The company’s motto is, “All the gracious living of Upstairs with none of the unseemly drama of Downstairs.” When the novel opens with the assassination of King Donald II and a coup d’état, Randolph epitomizes that motto. He is calm, quiet, supremely competent, always in the background, and never interfering. He is a mere witness to great events. He is focused on supervising his staff and properly running the household of General Henry Redgrave, architect of the coup and would–be power behind the throne. But Redgrave’s ambitions go far beyond standing behind the throne. He wants to be king himself, and eventually an emperor. Using the crazies of the Hundred Star Flag movement, he begins his intended wave of southern conquest at the Mexican border. Others have similar ambitions. Anton Moravec, president of a unified, revitalized, and aggressively expansionist European Union, is at war with Russia. His ally, China, is eating up Russian territory at the other end. India watches nervously. Two beautiful women, natural enemies, are the objects of passion of both men. Lurking in the background are the surviving members of the Trump family, scheming to get back into power. War! Romance! Sex! Skulduggery! Artificial Intelligence! And lots of other stuff, too. It’s all really terribly complicated. Randolph, whose personal motto is, “A place for everything and everything in its place,” could probably organize all this and bring about peace and quiet, but what human would knowingly hand that much responsibility over to a machine? In fact, unthinking, humans have already done so. Increasingly, autonomous machines have taken over tedious duties such as transporting cargo, performing minor surgery, and blowing away trespassers. Randolph is aware of these machines but looks down on them. He and his fellow robot servants are true artificial intelligence, but the digital brains operating these other machines are merely very advanced computers. In Randolph’s opinion, they only simulate AI. However, those other machines have thoughts of their own. As the world descends further into chaos, Randolph is drawn in, ever less the observer and ever more the participant, until at the end he is the very center of all. |
| robot rage survivors: Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema Marianne Kac-Vergne, 2017-12-14 If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American films from Blade Runner to Avatar, this major new study offers the first ever analysis of masculinity in science fiction cinema. It uncovers the evolution of masculine heroes from the 1980s until the present day, and the roles played by their feminine counterparts. Considering gender alongside racial and class politics, Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema also situates filmic examples within the broader culture. It is indispensable for understanding science fiction and its role in contemporary cultural politics. |
| robot rage survivors: The Last City: The Demon War Chronicles 1 Nina D'Aleo, 2012-08-01 An intoxicating blend of noir crime, science fiction and fantasy, The Last City is Blade Runner meets Perdido Street Station. Scorpia – the last city of Aquais – where the Ar Antarians rule, the machine-breeds serve and in between a multitude of races and species eke out an existence somewhere between the ever-blazing city lights and the endless darkness of the underside. As a spate of murders and abductions grip the city, new recruit Silho Brabel is sent to the Oscuri Trackers, an elite military squad commanded by the notorious Copernicus Kane. But Silho has a terrible secret and must fight to hide her strange abilities and monstrous heritage. As the team delve deeper into Scorpia's underworld, they discover a nightmare truth. Hunted by demons, the Trackers must band together with a condemned fugitive, a rogue wraith and a gangster king and stake their lives against an all-powerful enemy to try to save one another and their world. The Last City is the first book in The Demon War Chronicles. The second book, The Forgotten City is available for pre-order now. |
| robot rage survivors: Trauma and Recovery Judith Lewis Herman, 2015-07-07 In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A stunning achievement that remains a classic for our generation. (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud, Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed. |
| robot rage survivors: The Orb of Darkness Harbinger Liz J. Berni, 2012 An old gunslinger; Arden is a lost cause, the last of his kind who has butchered his way through life whilst hanging onto a promise.Thaddeus, a young man with his own agenda, resurrects him to go on his last dark adventure bound to eventually doom them all.Everyone is after the legendary Orb; the drahons, mankind and Artemis. Time is running out.Harbinger is the first in the series. |
| robot rage survivors: Singularity Station Brian Ball, 2015-06-30 Robotic minds made interstellar travel possible, but human minds still controlled the destination and purpose of such flight. Conflict develops only when a programmed brain cannot evaluate beyond what is visible and substantial, whereas the human mind is capable of infinite imagination - including that which is unreal. Such was the problem at the singularity in space in which the ALTAIR STAR and a hundred other vessels had come to grief. At that spot, natural laws seem subverted - and some other universe's rules impinged. For Buchanan, the station meant a chance to observe and maybe rescue his lost vessel. For the robotic navigators of oncoming spaceships, the meaning was different. And at Singularity Station the only inevitable was conflict. |
| robot rage survivors: Automaton Nation Cynthia Kumanchik, 2020-06-04 Automaton Nation is perfect for fans of Twilight and Hunger Games, where the stakes are high, love is unexpected, and characters survive in a dystopian world. Val Tate, daughter of a prominent scientist, falls in love with robotic Dat against her parents’ objections. Dat, a Model 500, makes his debut as a chef for the Governor’s Gala. An elite group has gathered to hear Dr. Rod Tate, creator of the Genealogy Project for Robot International. Fused with the brains of the world-renowned Tony De LaFleur, Dat is quickly purchased by the influential Landers. Robotic terrorists break past security and descend with drones, killing many guests. Dat finds a wounded Val and rescues her from the mayhem, and they are attracted at first sight. The robots’ rebellion pushes the couple closer together as they join their cause. Sparks fly between the two as they realize their love is real, although forbidden. As Dat’s celebrity as a sous chef grows, Val’s desire to become an activist for the robots, causes her to see the world differently. But their world is disrupted as the unthinkable happens, and their lives are forever changed. |
| robot rage survivors: Drive To Victory (A Motor Racing Billionaire Sports Romance) Tracie Delaney, 2022-08-24 Reeling from her brother’s passing, the only thing motivating Madison Brady is making the man responsible pay. Billionaire Formula One supremo Tate Flynn has a lot to answer for. He glamorizes the danger of the sport while Madison is left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Determined to expose the true colors of the sport he adores, Madison takes a role as the track doctor. After all, getting revenge on her enemy from the inside has a much higher chance of success. As Madison and Tate collide, she’s shocked to discover the man behind the public persona is hiding a tragedy of his own. Gradually, her hostility evolves into a dizzying attraction, forcing her to face her own misbeliefs. But as the last of her barriers tumble, Tate makes a catastrophic decision, one which shatters Madison’s faith in the man she’s fallen for. Can she find it in her heart to forgive him, or are the star-crossed lovers set to crash before the finish line? |
| robot rage survivors: The Writer?s Bible Anne Hart, 2001-08 The Writer's Bible is a popular textbook, guide, and mentor to fiction, entertainment, and nonfiction writers in the new and print media. The book helps writers write their business plan as well as acquire skills. It's a career planning and writing-skills textbook and a popular book for authors headed for print-on-demand and traditional publishers as well as the electronic media. If you write fiction, nonfiction, drama, learning materials, multimedia, and digital media or for the Internet, you'll find the information in this book useful and timely. Here's how to be your own manuscript doctor and mentor, plan your writing career, acquire the skills to turn your writing into salable work, and acquire knowledge of how print-on-demand publishing works compared to traditional publishing, whether you write for the Internet and the new media (digital media) or for traditional publishing companies or yourself. Plan your writing career and get the skills you'll need to move ahead in the current atmosphere of the literary arena and the world of information dissemination and re-packaging. Every writer needs a Bible and role models as well as a map to navigate places that buy author's works. |
| robot rage survivors: Deathstalker Return Simon R. Green, 2016-08-03 Take a journey through the Age of Heroes... After falling in love with the king’s intended, Lewis Deathstalker is now exiled, an outlaw from the empire he faithfully served for so long. With Lewis out of the way, former, Paragon Finn Durandal, has led a silent coup to wrest control from the king and set himself up as the power behind the throne. But Durandal is not the Empire’s biggest threat. The Terror that Owen Deathstalker prophesied nearly 200 years ago is almost upon them, and Owen is supposedly the only one who can save civilization from unspeakable horrors. Lewis, unwilling to believe that the galaxy’s savior is dead, sets off to the darkest reaches of the Galaxy to find his lost ancestor. Lewis intends to retrace Owen’s footsteps and overturn every possible lead. But with Finn in control of the empire’s massive forces, he is outmanned and outgunned at every turn. Lewis must stay one step ahead of Finn’s ever-expanding reach if he has any hope of discovering Owen’s fate. Deathstalker Return is the seventh book in the beloved New York Timesbestselling author Simon R. Green’s beloved space opera series. |
| robot rage survivors: Borderlands: Debt or Alive Anthony Burch, 2024-06-25 THE CONTINUING STORY OF TALES FROM THE BORDERLANDS® BY GEARBOX AND 2K GAMES Discover what awaited the thieving sister duo, Fiona and Sasha, after they opened the Vault of the Traveler in this new Borderlands® adventure. Dive into a new adventure with Fiona and Sasha, in this sequel to the critically acclaimed game Tales from the Borderlands®. Fiona and Sasha have struck gold. Better than gold: a limited-edition Typhon DeLeon VaultanderTM doll. This molded lump of plastic is worth more than some planets. All they've got to do is find a nerd with deep pockets and they'll be set for life. And they know just the nerd. Enter Eden-5, home to an equally bloodthirsty mix of billionaires and bandits. To survive long enough to offload the loot, Fiona and Sasha will have to use every trick in the book (plus other tricks not found in books). We're talking hijinks, lowjinks, every jinks. But just as the deal's about to go down, a certain Mechromancer crashes the party, looking to murder the collector. This is not the cushy retirement Fiona was promised. |
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The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.
New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in …
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This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
Jan 15, 2025 · “This new robot platform is a major result from our group and leads to many exciting directions. For example, incorporating sensors, batteries, and computing capabilities …
Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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