Image: kuloser/Pixabay “Anti-Android is Anti-Human.”
Robots in science fiction generally fall into two categories: helpers and killers. Helpers are programmed to facilitate the objectives of their human companions, and are typified by characters like the garbage-compactor Wall-E, the Jetsons’ robotic maid Rosie, the Venture family’s H.E.L.P.eR bot , or droids like C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB8.
Killers—Terminators, cylons, the machines of The Matrix —are most often sentient robots that have rebelled against their human creators and seek to replace them through violent revolution and total extermination.While many fictional robots exist on a spectrum between these archetypes, the robo-killer trope […]
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