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   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 22/07/2025 8:08 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > 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:    
   >   
    From that page ....   
      
   "Blue Sky Studios", "Robots", "Isaac Asimov's Robot City", "Isaac   
   Asimov's Robot series", "Robot City (game)", "disambiguation" and   
   "internal link" all show as Blue Clickable links for me.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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