-Poul Anderson, "Quixote and the Windmill" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 2 (Riverdale, NY, February 2018), pp. 7-16 AT p. 7:
is a faceless metallic humanoid like Asimov's robots;
walks over "green hills" like Heinlein's Blind Singer of the Spaceways;
has X-ray, microscopic and telescopic vision like Superman;
is here compared to the jinni in the bottle, the Golem, Bacon's brazen head and Frankenstein's monster.
OK. That is a good start to an sf short story (only nine pages of text) and where is this story going? To one big surprise ending: this robot is unemployed!
Asimov's I, Robot is all robots. Anderson's Psychotechnic History has this one robot.
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Kaor, Paul!
Actually, we've had robots for many, many years. Esp. in factories, where robots are simply machines pre-programmed (predetermined?) to carry out repetitive tasks. These real world robots are nothing like the conscious, self acting robots we see here or in Asimov's stories.
Ad astra! Sean
Ad astra! Sean
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