speculative robot theme
There is a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence. For example, an android or a robotic dog that looks and behaves much like the real article.
Notes
For this theme to apply, the machinery itself or the artificial intelligence must be well beyond what is possible when the story was first released. The theme does not apply to creature-like machines that lack relatively advanced AI. For example, the theme does not apply to animal-shaped vehicles like the iconic AT-AT walker from Star Wars or the mechas from Japanese anime, even though these things are sometimes referred to as robots. The "piloted creature-shaped vehicle" theme is used to cover such contraptions.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ldr2019e2x07 | major | The crash-landing survivor Terence found himself in a life-and-death struggle against a malfunctioning robotic maintenance dog. |
| ldr2019e3x07 | major | A menacing, autonomous, scorpion-like killbot nearly exterminated the intelligent rats inhabiting Mason's barn. |
| ldr2019e4x05 | major | Sanchez the cat was initially threatened when his owners unboxed a new helper robot. The robot did chores around the house, had opposable thumbs, and ha access to its owner's credit card. |
| movie: Death Machine (1994) | major | The titular "Death Machine" was a mechanical T. Rex-like killer robot. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Kong (2021) | major | The Apex Cybernetics CEO unleashed the giant dinosaur-like robot Mechagodzilla on Godzilla. |
| movie: Robot Stories (2003): My Robot Baby | major | A main novelty of the story is a toaster-sized, egg-shaped robot that was programmed to behave like a human baby. |
| movie: Virus (1999) | major | The malevolent electrical energy being was going around killing people in a giant robot body that it was controlling. |
| ldr2019e1x14 | minor | The illustrious artist Zima Blue began and ended life as a lowly pool scrubbing robot. |
| ldr2019e3x05 | minor | A lawnmower-sized military robot equipped with missiles and a mini-gun fought in vain on the side of the Green Berets. |
| movie: Lost in Space (1998) | minor | The Jupiter II's onboard robot when haywire and tried to destroy the ship. |