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   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 22/07/2025 3:55 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-07-21 19:35, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >> On 2025-07-21, Daniel70  wrote:   
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   >>> 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   
   >   
   Not RED for me. Clicking your link takes we to a page which shows ....   
      
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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   
      
   Robot City may refer to:   
      
        Robot City, a fictional city in the 2005 Blue Sky Studios film Robots   
        Isaac Asimov's Robot City, a series of science fiction novels   
   written by multiple authors, inspired by Isaac Asimov's Robot series.   
            Robot City (game), a computer game developed by Brooklyn   
   Multimedia and released in 1995, based on the book series   
      
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   This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Robot   
   City.   
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