Spaceship Orion

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Robots don't have ideas. Robots don't ask "What if...?", they don't ask "Why?", "How?".

That's where science comes from.

pffft, you've obviously never watched Lost in Space.

A robotoid is an "artificial lifeform" that is created through processes that are totally different from cloning or synthetics.

Perhaps the first mention of "robotoid" was in the Lost in Space episode War of the Robots which originally aired on February 9, 1966 and credits Robby the Robot as a "robotoid" and William Bramley and Ollie O'Toole as uncredited "robotoid voice" actors. In the episode, the Lost in Space Robot says: It is more than a machine...it is a robotoid. The robot goes on to explain that as a robot, it is constrained by its programming, whereas the robotoid has the capability of making a choice. The episode is described as: The family's robot is seemingly replaced when Will repairs a robotoid from an advanced civilization - until the new machine wreaks havoc by trying to take over the ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotoid

(Am I gonna get into trouble for using a wikilink about a thing of fiction?)