ROBOT
Machine
Humanoid robot
Humanoid
Android
Droid
Cybernetic person
Automatic computing system
Mechanical worker
Mechanical man
Metal Man
Artificial human
Artificial life
Drone
CYBORG
Cybernetic-organic system
Cybernetic organism
Robotic-organic system
Machine-organic interface/system
Computer brain
Cybernetic brain
Half human, half machine
I realize I might be referencing to the movie
I, Robot often in this blog, but this film brings up a lot of issues to talk about in terms of what Daniel Dinello’s book
Technophobia! introduces in its pages so far. In the film
I, Robot, Detective Spooner called Sonny a “canner,” and this reflects his prejudice against the robots. The Spooner character wouldn’t use that word if he didn’t feel hatred towards them. And Sonny takes offense to the word “canner” and corrects Spooner by saying his name is Sonny.
In Asimov’s short story “Lost Little Robot,” the physicist Gerald Black had told a robot to “go lose [him]self,” and eventually spilled it out to Dr. Susan Calvin that he called it a number of derogatory names before telling it to go lose itself. The order from this human being, in addition to the harmful names he had called him, resulted in the robot’s unusual behavior.
