The Robotoid
A robotoid is a kind of advanced mechanism equipped with artificial intelligence and free will. According to the Robot, the robotoid distinguishes itself from the common robot in that a robot is bound to its programming, while a robotoid can choose whether to follow such programming or not.
A robotoid created by an alien civilization was found wrecked on the planet Priplanus in the season one episode "War of the Robots." The part was played by Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
Other works[]
While Lost in Space probably deserves credit for inventing the term, it has also shown up in other works by numerous authors:
Piers Anthony's short story Getting Through University, which may have been published as early as 1967/1968 in the science fiction magazine Worlds of If, mentions a robotoid.[1]
In April 1968, Marvel Comics released Avengers #51 which introduced "The Robotoid".[2]
Author John Coleman claims Zbigniew Brzezinski is the author of the 1970 book, The Technetronic Era[3] (commissioned by the Club of Rome) and that the book is:
- ...an open announcement of the manner and methods to be used to control the United States in the future. It also gave notice of cloning and "robotoids," i.e. people who acted like people and who seemed to be people, but who were not.[4]
On December 20, 1978, the Battle of the Planets TV series episode "Rage of the Robotoids" was released.[5]
According to Peter Beter in his May 28, 1979 Dr. Peter David Better Audio Letter #46 series of audio books, organic robotoid technology is being made to make nearly exact copies of important people. One organization that allegedly uses such classified technology is the Illuminati. Robotoids are "manufactured" first by copying the memory of an entire brain. A holographic image is made of the host's brain and that is transferred into the biological matter functioning as a brain of the robotoid, but adjustments have to be taught and programmed into the mind of the robotoid since the body and brain of the robotoid are not identical to the original person being copied.
References[]
- ↑ The Complete Piers Anthony: Prosthy Plus
- ↑ The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Character Profile: The Robotoid, compiled by Jeff Christiansen
- ↑ Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetroic Era, Viking Press, 1970 (1982 Greenwood Press reprint, ISDN 0313234981)
- ↑ Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, John Coleman, 1992
- ↑ Big Cartoon Database: Rage of the Robotoids