XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-21 19:35, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2025-07-21, Daniel70  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 20/07/2025 9:34 pm, Paul wrote:   
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   >>   
   >>> Your first robot, should have been one with hands,   
   >>> so it could assemble your other robots for you.   
   >>   
   >> Hmmm! Robots assembling Robots!! Isn't that part of the backstory of   
   >> Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" string of films??   
   >   
   > I once read a short story about robots assembling robots.  Unfortunately   
   > I can remember neither the author nor the title (although the title might   
   > be something like "How the World Ended").  The basic idea was that the   
   > robots had an overriding desire to build more robots, and would take   
   > apart other machinery to get parts.  This brought an end to war, since   
   > robots would disassemble weapons to get parts to build more robots.   
   > In the end robots became a sort of natural resource: take half a dozen   
   > lower halves of robots, lay a plank across them, and you have a wagon.   
   > It was a clever story; I wish I could find it again.   
      
   I remember another history, set in the Asimov Robot City universe, in   
   which there were robot cells. Put many together, throw a positronic   
   mind, and a power cell, and it would shape itself into a robot, of any   
   shape.   
      
   No wikipedia article, funny. The link is red.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_City   
      
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