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1) I, robot
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.
Humankind thought it had triumphed over the machines... but Archos has survived. Spread across the far reaches of the world, the machine code has fragmented into millions of pieces, hiding and regrouping. As survivors, robotic and human, fight...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
6) Stop! Bot!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
10) Fix this mess!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Robug tries to obey when Jake instructs it to "Fix this mess!" but somehow manages to make things worse.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traveling across a barren landscape, Lernert digs through piles of rubbish in an attempt to build a body for his companion Susan, the unresponsive robot head who hangs from the back of his pack. The pair comes across Rola, a spirited young woman who lacks survival skills but makes up for the deficiency with sheer determination. This unlikely trio navigates the harsh desert in search of a mythical water basin that could replenish their depleted resources...
12) This is war
Author
Series
Cats vs. robots volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The longstanding and galaxy-spanning war between cats and robots escalates when each learns of inventions designed to extend their lives, and the potential of the devices is revealed when two kittens come into the lives of twin siblings on Earth.
13) NanoBots
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young inventor accidentally creates a group of tiny robots that employ their unique abilities and teamwork to become incredibly useful--and maybe even change the world. Includes author's note on the science and uses of nano-robotics.
14) Clink
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
While newer, fancier robots are quickly purchased, Clink, an old-fashioned robot who can only make toast and music, gathers dust and feels downhearted until a young boy enters the shop looking for something special.
15) The Robobots
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When the Robobots move onto Littlewood Lane they create controversy with their strange ways, but eventually they convince the neighbors that they are a family worth knowing.
16) Marveltown
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
18) See Pip flap
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With help from his friend Otto the robot, Pip the mouse tries to fly.
19) Robots
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Explores how robots function and are made, looking at their computing components and how engineers design them with specific capabilities.
20) Monkey & Robot
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Monkey and Robot, who laugh and jump up and down when they are happy, enjoy a variety of activities.
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