Introduction

I am certain that everyone has a different image in mind when they hear the word “robot.” One definition I found while doing a Google search stated that a robot was “a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.” A good example from real life would be a mechanical arm on an assembly line designed to place specific parts on a product, but that would be all it would do. A second definition for robot is “a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions.” These are the robots that we see in speculative fiction worlds that are mechanical creations made by a human to resemble a human or other organic creation.

The robots in this book are not the kind that have ...

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