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A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine.

Robot or Robots may also refer to:

Film and television

  • Robots (film)
    Robots (film)
    Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox, and was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce, a children's book author/illustrator. The two were trying to create a film version of...

    , a 2005 American animated film
  • Robot (film)
    Robot (film)
    Enthiran is a 2010 Tamil science fiction film co-written and directed by S. Shankar. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a scientist and an android robot, alongside Aishwarya Rai whilst Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam, Karunas, Kalabhavan Mani, Devadarshini, and Cochin Haneefa play...

     or , a 2010 Tamil feature film
    • Enthiran (soundtrack)
      Enthiran (soundtrack)
      Enthiran is the soundtrack album to the 2010 Tamil science fiction film, Enthiran, directed by S. Shankar and starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai. The soundtrack album includes seven tracks composed by A. R. Rahman and was released Apsar Basha on July 31, 2010 by Think Music...

       or Robot, the soundtrack album
  • "Robot" (Doctor Who)
    Robot (Doctor Who)
    Robot is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 December 1974 to 18 January 1975...

    , a serial on Doctor Who
  • "Robot" (The Goodies), an episode of The Goodies
  • "The Robots" (Code Lyoko), an episode of Code Lyoko
  • Robot B-9
    Robot B-9
    The B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot was a character in the television series Lost in Space. Known and addressed simply as "Robot", his full designation was only occasionally mentioned on the show.-History:...

     or Robot, a character on Lost in Space

Music

  • Robot (dance)
    Robot (dance)
    The robot is an illusionary street dance style – often confused with popping – that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin...

  • Robot (album), an album by Nikos Karvelas
  • Robot, an upcoming album by 3OH!3
  • "The Robots
    The Robots
    "The Robots" is a single by the influential German electronic music pioneers, Kraftwerk, released in 1978. The single and its B-side, "Spacelab", both appeared on the band's seventh album, The Man-Machine...

    ", a song by Kraftwerk
  • "Robot", a song by Miley Cyrus from Can't Be Tamed
    Can't Be Tamed
    Can't Be Tamed is the third studio album by American recording artist Miley Cyrus, first released on June 18, 2010 by Hollywood Records. Writing and recording commenced while Cyrus traveled on the 2009 Wonder World Tour. 19 live performances and backstage interviews from a performance at London's...

  • "Robots", a song by Flight of the Conchords from The Distant Future
    The Distant Future
    The Distant Future is the Grammy-award winning EP by New Zealand folk-parody duo Flight of the Conchords, released on August 7, 2007. It was certified Gold in New Zealand on May 11, 2008, selling over 7,500 copies....

  • "Robot", a song by the Futureheads from The Futureheads
    The Futureheads (album)
    The Futureheads was The Futureheads self titled debut album. It was released on July 12, 2004 and spawned the singles "First Day", "Decent Days and Nights", "Meantime", and "Hounds of Love"...

  • "Robots", a song by TV on the Radio from OK Calculator
    OK Calculator
    OK Calculator is a demo collection from TV on the Radio which they self-released in 2002. The album's title alludes to Radiohead's album OK Computer.-Track listing:#"Freeway" – 2:19#"Say You Do" – 5:19...


Video games

  • Robots (computer game)
    Robots (computer game)
    Robots is a computer game originally developed for the Berkeley Software Distribution—a derivative of Unix—by Ken Arnold. In the turn-based game, players are tasked with escaping robots programmed to kill them. Since then it has been reproduced as clone games for various platforms.-Gameplay:Robots...

    , a computer game originally developed for Unix
  • Robots (2005 video game), a video game based on the animated film
  • Robot (video game series), two 1985 NES games that used the Robotic Operating Buddy accessory
  • Robot Entertainment
    Robot Entertainment
    Robot Entertainment is a video game publishing company created by the founders of the defunct Ensemble Studios, after being shut down by Microsoft. Other members of the company founded Bonfire Studios. Robot Entertainment was responsible for maintaining and updating Halo Wars until February 28,...

    , an American video game development company

Publications

  • Robot: Super Color Comic, a manga series
  • Robot Magazine
    Robot Magazine
    Robot Magazine is an American bi-monthly robotics publication produced by the Maplegate Media Group. The first issue appeared in November 2003...

  • Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
    Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
    Isaac Asimov's Robot Series is a series of short stories and novels by Isaac Asimov featuring positronic robots.- Short stories :Most of Asimov's robot short stories are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration...

    , a series of novels and short stories

Other uses

  • Robot (camera)
    Robot (camera)
    Robot is a German imaging company known originally for clockwork cameras, later producing surveillance and bank security cameras. Originally created in 1934 as a brand of Otto Berning and Co., it became part of the Jenoptik group of optical companies in 1999...

  • Robot Patent
    Robot Patent
    The Robot Patent was a labour rent abolished by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who had carried out a register of all land with a division between peasant and noble holdings. Joseph II outlawed the buying of 'rustic' land by the nobility and at the same time giving the rusticalists security of tenure...

    , a historical labour rent in the Habsburg Empire
  • Internet robot, an automated computer program that runs tasks on the Internet
  • Robots exclusion standard
    Robots Exclusion Standard
    The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web crawlers and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to...

    , a World Wide Web protocol
  • Traffic light
    Traffic light
    Traffic lights, which may also be known as stoplights, traffic lamps, traffic signals, signal lights, robots or semaphore, are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic...

     or robot, a signaling device positioned at a road intersection

People with the surname

  • Alexandru Robot
    Alexandru Robot
    Alexandru Robot was a Romanian, Moldovan and Soviet poet, also known as a novelist and journalist. First noted as a member of Romanian literary clubs, and committed to modernism and the avant-garde, he developed a poetic style based on borrowings from Symbolist and Expressionist literature...

     (1916 - ca. 1941), Bessarabian writer
  • Isidore Robot
    Isidore Robot
    -Early life:Born July 18, 1837, at Thoriseau, France, Isidore Robot entered the Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery of Saint Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire, in central France. He was professed as a monk in 1859 and ordained a priest in 1862...

     (1837 - 1887), French Roman Catholic missionary

See also

  • I, Robot (disambiguation)
    I, Robot (disambiguation)
    - In literature :*I, Robot, book of short stories by Isaac Asimov*"I, Robot" , science-fiction short story by Eando Binder first published in 1939*"I, Robot" , 2005 science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow- In music :...

  • Bot (disambiguation)
  • Robo (disambiguation)
  • List of Robots
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