XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-22 11:57, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 20/07/2025 9:34 pm, Paul wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>> 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 ....   
   >   
   > Quote   
   >  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   
      
   The link marked with ** above shows in red to me.   
      
   Screenshot:    
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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