Artificial humans and autonomous artificial servants have a long history in human culture, though the term Robot and its modern literary conception as a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence are more fairly recent. The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines.

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  • Artificial humans and autonomous artificial servants have a long history in human culture, though the term Robot and its modern literary conception as a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence are more fairly recent. The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines. Recently, a popular overview of the history of androids, robots, cyborgs and replicants from antiquity to the present has been published. Treated fields of knowledge are: history of technology, history of medicine, philosophy, literature, film and art history, the range of topics discussed is worldwide. (en)
  • Le thème du robot dans la littérature concerne les œuvres littéraires traitant des robots. Un robot est une machine destinée à automatiser la réalisation de certaines tâches mais la littérature s'intéresse principalement à la création par l'Homme d'un être artificiel à son image et à la place de cette créature dans la société humaine. Ainsi traitait-elle déjà ce sujet avant même l'invention du mot robot et l'avènement de la robotique. C'est pourquoi on trouve, selon les périodes, un vocabulaire diversifié : automate, androïde, créature artificielle… (fr)
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  • Le thème du robot dans la littérature concerne les œuvres littéraires traitant des robots. Un robot est une machine destinée à automatiser la réalisation de certaines tâches mais la littérature s'intéresse principalement à la création par l'Homme d'un être artificiel à son image et à la place de cette créature dans la société humaine. Ainsi traitait-elle déjà ce sujet avant même l'invention du mot robot et l'avènement de la robotique. C'est pourquoi on trouve, selon les périodes, un vocabulaire diversifié : automate, androïde, créature artificielle… (fr)
  • Artificial humans and autonomous artificial servants have a long history in human culture, though the term Robot and its modern literary conception as a mobile machine equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence are more fairly recent. The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines. (en)
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  • Robots in literature (en)
  • Robot dans la littérature (fr)
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