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21) Bubblegum
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
22) Ex machina
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan...
26) Network effect
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
27) Chobits
Series
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2002-2003
Language
English
Description
Chi isn't your average humanoid computer. She can't do word processing, she can't connect to the Internet, and she's incapable of networking with other persocoms. Even her sound card seems broken. No wonder Hideki found her tied up in a pile of trash. But when the 19-year-old technophobe takes her home, he finds that she may be more advanced than her childlike behavior lets on
Series
DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Bandai
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Japoness, like the rest of planet Terra II, is a land without women. In an attempt to fill this void, society has devised female androids called marionettes. But they are simply soulless machines designed to help with routine tasks. Until, that is, an ordinary young man named Otaru discovers three sleeping marionettes possessed with a special circuit that gives them the ability to have emotions.
Author
Series
Advances in interaction studies volume Volume 7
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
31) The Nexi robot
Author
Series
Publisher
Norwood House Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Nexi is one of a team of four small humanoid robots that have mobility, dexterity and 'social' communication skills"--Provided by publisher.
33) THX 1138
Language
English
Description
"Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out."--Container.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2307 A.D. The earth is frozen over and virtually uninhabitable. The remaining humans live underground, unable to survive the sub-arctic temperatures. With no 'man power', scientists bio-engineered humanoids that possess great strength, speed, and tolerance to extreme cold. A rouge humanoid named ASH-393 escapes from captivity and threatens to lead a humanoid rebellion against mankind.
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Escape is not freedom. Welcome back to Westworld, the Emmy-winning drama series that follows the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. In Season Three, the real gods are coming and they are very angry. Born into a world of pain, Westworldb2ss android hosts were never allowed to go or see one place: the world. But now, at the end of the game, theyb2sre here.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Circuitry Man: Set in the toxic near-future, Circuitry man takes place in a world of poisoned air, subterranean cities and mutant leeches. It follows a tough female bodyguard and a pleasure-programmed android as they attempt to smuggle mind-bending computer chips. The chips are the drug of choice for programmable humans, and war is waged in the minds of the combatants. Plughead-rewired: Circuitry Man II: The future is controlled by Plughead. His pleasure...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood and bone. Forty-five years in the making, this is the story of Scarlet Witch and the Vision. Before family, there was love. And war.
39) Exit strategy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation,...