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Language
English
Description
In a future world of global warming and awe-inspiring scientific advances, humans share every aspect of their lives with sophisticated companion robots called Mechas. But when an advanced prototype robot child named David is programmed to show unconditional love, his human family isn't prepared for the consequences. Suddenly, David is on his own in a strange and dangerous world. Befriended by a streetwise Mecha, David embarks on a quest to discover...
23) Robot Revolution
Publisher
Films Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Professor Rodney Brooks has had one enduring ambition his entire life: to build machines that can truly think. He's been doing so since he was eight years of age, tinkering obsessively in the backyard garage. At the forefront of a stunning period in robotic history, today Professor Brooks and his dedicated team of scientists are certain they're about to make a technological breakthrough as they race to customize the world's first truly socially interactive...
Author
Series
Freyaverse volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
26) After Yang
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When his young daughter's beloved companion, an android named Yang, malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming human-kind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about change everything"--Page 4 of cover.
29) Bicentennial man
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.
30) Droid-Ography
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Droids have always been at the heart of Star Wars, from the classic adventures of C-3PO and R2-D2 to the valiant exploits of BB-8 in the latest episodes of the saga. Droidography is the ultimate in-universe guide to these lovable characters with insider info on their function and role in the Star Wars universe. Covering every known model of droid, including free-rolling astromechs, protocol units, KX-series security models, and even bounty hunter...
31) Crashed
Author
Series
Skinned trilogy (Robin Wasserman) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as Lia.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a future Japan, long after an environmental catastrophe, Alpha the android runs a small café in a seaside town. As she wonders if her absent owner will ever return, she stands witness to the twilight of humanity with coffee, a slice of watermelon, and the sound of her moon guitar. Alpha and her fellow residents enjoy the melancholy beauty of life, even as the end approaches"--
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after planet-sized robots called Harvesters appeared and wreaked havoc across the galaxy, a young robot named TIM-21 wakes to find that all robots have been outlawed. But TIM may hold the secrets to the Harvesters in his machine DNA and he quickly becomes the most wanted robot in the universe. With bounty hunters and threats lurking at every turn, TIM embarks on a mind-blowing adventure through the stars along with his robot dog, Bandit,...
35) Vice
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think, and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hellbent on shutting down the resort, stopping the violence once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Tandemental
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cognation Academy's invisible passages, floating buildings, and treetop hideaways appear to be powered by magic. Tech giant Cognation Industries, however, doesn't need magic to make the impossible a reality. In her second year at the Academy, Charlotte Blythe comes face to face with Cognation's latest creations in the form of ten new students who are alarmingly real but not exactly human. This experiment will challenge everything Charlotte thought...
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
39) D.A.R.Y.L
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The product of combining a cloned body and a computer brain results in a perfect little boy, until he is discovered by a normal little boy and taught about imperfection.
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
日本語
Description
Android J was secretly built by the government to be the partner of special agent Daisuke Aurora and to combat crime in the oceanic city-nation of Judoh. While J initially appears to be human, the illusion quickly disappears in clouds of scorching steam when he fights. The most dangerous criminals will soon find themselves on the run from the underground legend known as Heat Guy.