robots

What's something you watched or read that had an interesting take on robots? It could be a movie, or a book, or short story, or an episode from a kids cartoon you vaguely remember... anything that went beyond the obvious. Usually when sentient robots come up, it's the same two questions: 1...

(I might make a map for this scenario later, but for now it's just a vignette. Obviously it isn't meant to be hard-realistic alternate history.) Children of Eve The Story of the Mechanical Homeland The analytical engine, as you all know, changed the world. You have all heard the story of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdS29SDvn4 Can it really be that we don't have a thread on one of the best mecha shows out at the moment and maybe ever? I just caught up to episode 17 and now I find there's no discussion thread on it? This is poor. For those of you who don't know it...

A Special Thanks to my Patreons: Naduto, Tale Swapper, Ttw1, J Frost, and Omida “Dr. Ciel, we’ve found her.” An unknown voice stated. Something within me stirred, and, with a mechanical hiss, the Stasis Pod that had been my home for so long opened. I blinked, my artificial eyes opening from...

Power online. System 100% You and a dozen others find themselves in an opaque plastic bag. Tearing it open like an amniotic sac you could practically see in the soot ridden sky piles upon piles of similar bags and excess rubbish forming ravines of forgotten things left to dessicate in the mid...

It was more than an average day on the S.S. Grand Design. The sprawling former research space station had been abandoned for 73 years now, left to rot with just it's machines inhabitants.... Mostly. You were a young: [] Male [] Female Named: [] Write-In Who had been abandoned at a...

You were Bender Bending Rodríguez and, to put it bluntly, you were royally screwed. You honestly don't know how you get yourself into these situations! One moment you were about to rob this museum so you could sell what you got for booze money, the next you had told a lie convincing enough...

“Tailored, self-repairing, climate adjusted uniform, £120. Brass gorget with energy screen generator, £92 4s. Infantry sabre model 2160 with adjustable settings, £75 1s 6d. Space Pattern Infantry Laser Pistol of 2155, with engraved nameplate, £105. A tidy bill for an enlisted machine, Dora.” I...

The World is a mess. Warring factions, gangs, and the remnants of war make any attempts at stable living harder than most would think. Those that do manage to survive are often unwilling to risk much in the face of the dangers that lurk in the wilderness. Those that do often die long before they...

The year is 2260, Nearly 100 years after the Slave Legions of the now destroyed Zovi Empire landed in storms of fire and death on the planet of Earth. It was a mere 80 years ago when for reasons unknown to every single living being on Earth, From the lowest Scut slave to the highest Zovi...

Welcome to Songs of the Created, in which you play as a civilization of artificial lifeforms. Here's a basic list of The Rules. Voting Voting will usually be handled via Approval. Everyone votes for as many options in a given category as they like, and whichever gets the most total votes wins...

I Love You I was on my way home from work. The sun was bright. Buildings towered into the air around me. The city had its own manmade beauty to it. A geometric symmetry that nature couldn’t reflect. The light of the sun reflected off the windows of the skyscrapers back at me...

“Against the white snow of Atlesian high society, the black shadows of secrets and scandals are far more obvious to see.” - Uriel Lumen, A Treatise on Traveling * You are Weiss Schnee. You are the daughter of Jacques and Bianca Schnee, and heir to the Schnee Dust Company. You are...

"Ahh that hurts" I tried to rub my head only for there to be no feeling whatsoever. I was then suddenly subjected to a burst of color and then the ability to see in a 360 view. The first thing that I thought was 'oh' then 'oh shit' then 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' while I was getting my mind turned...

So a spiritual successor to Armored Core has been created and is in the works. This project seems to have been in development for over 3 years as it is being made by the same guy who uploaded a test video of Armored Core being recreated in UE4 (can't 100% confirm just yet but it's posted on the...

The woods are quiet tonight. As the night wears on, a low mist gathers around the edge of your camp, growing closer and closer as the night wears on. When you rise, your fire has gone out and the fog hangs thick in the air, turning the nearby trees into gray ghosts. Then you realize these trees...

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers. Gnaws iron, bites steel, Grinds hard stones to meal, Slays king, ruins town, and beats tall mountain down. - You lived in an age of dragons. You were sure that it would endure forever. The draconic empires were mighty. Their...

Compared to organic life, robots have many advantages. Their bodies are relatively simple by comparison, making it easier to diagnose and repair problems, as well as reducing the variety of things that can go wrong. By the same token, robots are fairly easy to mass-produce; it's a lot easier to...

Thread Policy: This game is in a state of Permanent Recruiting Welcome to HG-903, a barren airless rock on the edge of its solar system. It is also the dumping ground of choice for out-of-date pieces of technology, covered in a kilometers-deep layer of assorted scrap, junk, and the occasional...

Your day started normal enough for you. You arrived at your mall store early, said hi to the coffe girl from the store in front of you, got your uniform ready and started cleaning to get the shop ready. A manga/anime store wasn't the first place you expected to work at but it was an okay one...

Can Droids Dream? A Droid Jedi Quest =0.1 - Once there was a B1 Battledroid...= The Force cannot be wielded by Droids. That alone was an argument why your kind weren't living. But this gift... this gift that you have within you cannot be explained. That is why you seek: [ ] Knowledge Start...

Been a long time coming. Girls' Frontline is approaching its English release with a closed beta. As of the writing of this thread the closed beta has closed its registration, but pre-registration for the general release is still open. Use the following link to pre-register: Girl Frontline...

On an unnamed planet untouched by the confederations of space farers lived a little girl and her friend the robot. The robot was out of date in several ways: Its parts were rusting and falling... apart... its speech was failing. It required constant maintenance. Yet every day she would work on...

== Decommissioned == There are three standing orders. As of five weeks ago, they have been the last you have ever received. 1. Cease all prior mission activities. 2. Clear all VIP lists, target and mission history data, and severe all links to the Corporate. All safehouses and maintenance hubs...

Summary When a notorious pirate’s illegal robot foster-daughter gets arrested for shoplifting and is subsequently shipped off to… wherever the Feds take illegally modified robots… what’s a girl to do when she stops playing dead to find everything has apparently gone terribly wrong, somewhere...