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1) Robots
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The role of robots in our lives is growing all the time. Learn about their many different shapes, sizes and uses and meet robots who do dangerous and dirty jobs, help perform surgery, look like us, show emotion like us and much more.
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
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"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
3) THX 1138
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"Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out."--Container.
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Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. Because of her fighting skills, she was able to save the president's life and is now a trusted member of the security forces. However, not all Tanushans are happy to have her on their turf and Cassandra has to tread carefully. As Callay moves toward a vote on whether to break away from the federation, confusion reigns...
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By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can?t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They?ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can...
6) After Yang
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When his young daughter’s beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot’s previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
7) Lifel1k3
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On an island junkyard beneath a cigarette sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for secrets; she's already too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she spent months building is a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive was the handful of credits she just lost to the bookies. Worst of all, she's discovered she can destroy machines with nothing more than her mind, and a...
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Escape is not freedom. Welcome back to Westworld, the Emmy-winning drama series that follows the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. In Season Three, the real gods are coming and they are very angry. Born into a world of pain, Westworld's android hosts were never allowed to go or see one place: the world. But now, at the end of the game, they're here.
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A sci-fi thriller that explores the realms of family, evolution, and, ultimately, the survival of the human race. Molly Woods is an astronaut trying to readjust to life on Earth. But slipping back into her role as wife and mother gets complicated when her doctor discovers that, after a year-long solo mission, Molly is inexplicably pregnant. Adding to her stress, Molly struggles to reconnect with her 'son, ' a humanoid robot created by her engineer...
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Buried in the black murk of space, a stowed-away crew suddenly awakens from stasis aboard the castaway space ship known as the "Raza". With no memory of their pasts or why they are onboard in the first place, this rag-tag crew has no choice but to roam the frontiers of the galaxy searching for answers. On their voyage they encounter rebel space armies, a zombiefied ship crew, derelict androids, and intergalactic bounty hunters, all attempting to pull...
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"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard. She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like...
15) Rey's story
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Rey never thought she would leave the desert planet of Jakku, but her life is turned upside down when she meets BB-8, a small droid with a big secret. Like it or not, Rey is about to be caught up in something much larger than herself: a galactic war between the evil First Order and the fledgling Resistance. But something is awakening inside of Rey, something that might turn the tides of fortune in the galaxy.
17) Vice
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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.
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"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language...
19) Exit strategy
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"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation,...
20) Rogue Protocol
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"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good."
