Robot Workers

General

CGP Grey Explores the Rise of Robotic Workers and What That Means for Humans
Future of AI Robotics and Jobs
Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and Other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy

Emergency Services

Firefighting Robot
U.S. Navy unveils robotic firefighter
This Incredible Hospital Robot Is Saving Lives. Also, I Hate It
Health care: Hospitals cut costs with 'creepy' robots

Security

• Microsoft Built a Friggin’ DALEK

Office Robots

• SORA, The Receptionist Robot
• SORA the Secretary is a Robot For Your Office
• Swiss startup that makes lab assistant robots opens Boston office
• Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they're robots
• Robot Telemarketer Samantha West Isn't a Robot
• Robot-denying telemarketing robot may not actually be a robot

"But the peculiar thing about Samantha West isn’t just that she is automated. It’s that she’s so smartly automated that she’s trained to respond to queries about whether or not she is a robot by telling you she’s a human. I asked Haerich if there is a regulation against robots lying to you.

“I don’t…know…that…,” she said. “That’s one I’ve never been asked before. I’ve never been asked that question. Ever.”

Recording of Samantha West:

Home Robots

• Invasion of the domestic robots

“We have 12 robots in our house,” said Boisdron. “We have a vacuum cleaner robot, we have a floor cleaner robot that washes the floor with vinegar, we have a litter robot for the cat, we have a robot to wash the windows, and we have a robot to cut the grass."

• Dyson's first robot vacuum promises more suction than the competition
• Dyson Releases the Eye, a Robot Vacuum With a 360-Degree Camera | WIRED

Service Industry Robot

• Lowe’s debuts customer service robots in store
• Now on Aisle 3 at Lowe's: Customer Service Robots | NewsFactor Business Report
• A Drug-Dealing Robot That Upends the Pharmacy Model | Design | WIRED
• Meet the Company Designing Robot Bellhops for Hotels | Design | WIRED
• Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry
• Industrial cake-decorating robot
• Backed by Google Ventures, the First Robot Hotel Butler Just Reported for Duty
• Robot Butler Rolls Into California Hotel | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
• Don’t be alarmed by that robot delivering a toothbrush to your hotel room - The Washington Post
• Robot Bartender to Set Sail On Cutting-Edge Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship | Singularity HUB
• BoozeBot, A Cocktail-Making Robot That Can Mix Over 4,500 Different Drinks
• BoozeBots - The ultimate automated home cocktail mixer. BoozeBots
• Will pole dancing robots put human strippers out of work?
• The Dancing Stripper Robots Of The Future Are Now Here | So Bad So Good
• You will be 'romancing' robots in 2025, claims study

Magic (1978)

Waxworks - Paul Leni (1924)

Batman The Killing Joke by Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, John Higgins (1988)

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Freaky, Super Cute and Cartoonish Robots/Toy Robots

Freaky
Freaky Robots

Cartoonish
Cartoonish Robots
c/f A Telepresence RoboCop Piloted by Oculus Rift and Sensored Gloves

Toy
3D Printers and Drones

I Feel Fantastic: Fake, Performative and Art Robots

Source. Last Moment Robot.

"I am the Last Moment Robot. I am here to help you and guide you through your last moment on Earth. I am sorry that your family and friends can't be with you right now, but don't be afraid. I am here to comfort you. You are not alone, you are with me. Your family and friends love you very much, they will remember you after you are gone."

Jordan Wolfson

Automata at the House of Automata

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Astonishing Fan Fiction Series I: Ghosts (X-Files fanfic, 1997)

Source.

Thanks, Cosplay.

The Pulp Magazines Project 1896-1946 The Uncanny

Source. Click on images to view scans of the magazines.

Dime Mystery Magazine | Established in 1932 | Popular | Edited by Rogers Terrill | Total Issues: 159.




Ghost Stories | Established in 1926 | MacFadden | Edited by Harry H. Keller, D.E. Wheeler, et al | Total Issues: 64.

Comic Books and Pulp Publishers | Est. in 1940-52 | Various | Ed. by Various | Total Issues: Continuing.

Out of this World Adventures | Established in 1950 | Avon | Edited by Donald A. Wollheim | Total Issues: 2.

Rod Serling - Short Stories

Academy

Big Surprise

Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes

Brenda

Camera Obscura

Caterpillar

Certain Shadows on the Wall

Clean Kills and Other Trophies

Cool Air

Dark Boy

Dead Man

Dead Weight

Dear Departed

Death in the Family

Death on a Barge

Devil Is Not Mocked

Die Now Pay Later

Different Ones

Doll

Doll of Death

Escape Route

Eyes

Fear of Spiders

Feast of Blood

Finnegans Flight

Funeral

Ghost of Sorworth Place

Girl with the Hungry Eyes

Green Fingers

Hand of Borgus Weems

Hells Bells

House

House with Ghost

Ill Never Leave You Ever

Last Laurel

Last Rites for a Dead Druid

Late Mr Peddington

Lindemanns Catch

Little Black Bag

Little Girl Lost

Logodas Heads

Lone Survivor

Make Me Laugh

Marmalade Wine

Merciful

Messiah on Mott Street

Painted Mirror

Pamelas Voice

Phantom Farmhouse

Pickmans Model

Question of Fear

Rare Objects

Return of the Sorcerer

Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes

Room with a View

Shell Be Company for You

Silent Snow Secret Snow

Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay

Sins of the Fathers

Something in the Woodwork

Stop Killing Me

Tell David

There Arent Any More MacBanes

Theyre Tearing Down Tim Rileys Bar

Tune in Dans Cafe

Whisper

You Can Come Up Now Mrs Millikan

c/f: Night Gallery Teleplays

Cure - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

Article on Cure on strictly film school
An Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003)
Cure: Confusion and Sophistication

Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1968)

The Black Ferris (1953, Ray Bradbury) in Tales of the Crypt

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

Weird Tales. Vol. I by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Cremona Violin; The Fermata; Signor Formica; The Sand-man; The Entail; Arthur's Hall)
Weird Tales, Vol. II by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1885)
(The Doge and Dogess; Master Martin the Cooper; Mademoiselle de Scudéri; Gambler's Luck; Master Johannes Wacht)
Mlle de Scuderi (1819)
The Story of the Hard Nut (1819)
Councillor Krespel (1819)
The Sandman (1817)

Drawings

Scooby Doo Background Paintings

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