Robot Novels by Isaac Asimov

Although there are other authors writing robot novels, no one has the body of work as Isaac Asimov.

1. I Robot
2. The Rest of the Robots
3. The Complete Robot
4. The Caves of Steel
5. The Naked Sun
6. The Robots of Dawn
7. Robots and Empire

Ideas and Inspiration for More Robots

I posted this AI generated image some time ago. Recently I was reviewing my past posts and saw this image at the bottom of the post and it got me thinking about creating more robot miniatures. I was struck with the many colors, shapes, sizes and many differnt sensory inputs of these specimens.

Recycling workshop waste into desktop robots!

While I follow other Makers I am rather partial to this one. With the use of various materials and techniques this Maker creates, what seems like out of thin air, objects that are out-of-this world.

The Animatrix - The Second Renaissance, Part 1 of 2

Painting my Robot Vermin

I needed a break from my paperwork so I am started to paint my robot vermin.

Picture of my robot vermin being painted. When I grab a paint brush and a tin of paint this will be my sixth or seventh interation through these sculpts. I usually will use two new colors to paint or touch-up the miniatures at one time and perhaps a third to touch up the miniatures I have already painted.

A Star Wars K-2SO Droid

They did a good job with the painting of details on the front of the model.

This droid was not advertized as a K-2SO Droid, but it sure looks like one. The droid stands approximately 120mm. It is a leggy thing and molded from a hard plastic and is highly detailed from the mold and paint. THe droids head, neck, arms, and legs are articulated.

As you can see the model also has some nice molded details on its backend. The question arises, should I take some paint to these details or not.

A Star Wars Medical Droid

A Star Wars medical droid from Star Wars five. A scene where Luke is being treated for exposure by one of the alliance's medical droids.

Retro Future Dreams

R is for Retro. A short AI generated film.

A Few More Pictures of that Handsome Devil K-2S0

“Congratulations, you are being rescued.”

Hay there tall, dark and handsome. Leave it to the Star Wars franchise to come up with a variety of droids. More information can found here about K-2S0 here.

"I am a reprogrammed Imperial droid.

" ―K-2SO

"K-2SO (Kay-Too-Ess-Oh or Kay-Tuesso), abbreviated K-2 (Kay-Tu or Kaytoo) or Kay."

"Did you know that wasn't me?"

Star Wars K-2SO

Although not a perfect likeness, K-2SO ¹ is similar to Asimov's robot depicted in the book art of this volumne.

Screenshot from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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¹The Star Wars K-2SO is a reprogrammed Imperial droid.

Asimov's The Naked Sun

The book art on the volume is one of my favorites and I would have loved to give credit to its author, but as of today I haven't been able to come-up with a reference for one. I will keep on trying.

"Elijah Baley, Earths most capable detective, took crime in his stride. But he had lived all his life in the underground cities, and the open, blazing sun of the planet Solario sent cold chills down his spine.

The Naked Sun is a rare and perfect blend of science fiction and detective story, with crime that could only take place in the future..."

The Naked Sun, Isaac Asimov, first copyywrite by I. Asimov in 1957, this Lancer Book (C) in 1964.

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Audio book

Planet Claire - The B-52's

An odd little ditty about a place far away. by the B-52's.

Lyrics

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning
Well, she isn't!
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire

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Edited on 6/4 at 11:41.

Robot 2 has been Completed

Although the robot needs some touch-ups with some metalic paint it is complete. The tracks and arms are leftovers from two robot kits I built. The rest of robot is scratch built using sqaure tube and leftover bits of polystyrene.

The robot is not built to scale, but stands approximwntly 40mm tall. I found layering the parts and rounding the corners add to the appearence of the model. The inner part of the head was fashioned from a recycled piece of razor handle and a couple pieces of styrene.

The device ob the robot back is a greeble that I found on Etsy. I might go back and add a few more details here and there.

Robot #2 an Update

Robot # 2 under construction and showing off its components.

Every so often I need to walk away from a project, in this case, to let the adhesive cure and to prepare for the next phase.

RV # 5 and Bonus Unit Completed

A cake topper, if you will. Although I did create a sixth unit, displayed below, this is the last robot vermin in this series for a while. I have desinated this unit as a security drone. The drone started out as a plastic tube inside a floss container. The material in which it was manufactured was of some waxy type of plastic, which at first, I didn't believe regular model cement would adhere strips to the cylinder. So I started of using super glue which made the process too fiddly. Things went better when I started to use model cement. I glued scale 1/4 strips around the spools diameter. The bottom was wrapped with a band of very thin styrene and I added scratch built rivets. The topper is a mystry, a part from my greeble collection.

This unit is signal repeater which picks up signals from other devices, amplifies the signal and pushes it out to the corresponding device. There is also a small storage area of a terabyte or two. Operating systems and the small bit of data that might be found on each device are also stored here to help restore necessary files quickly.

Robot # 2 Underway

Upper rright hand corner and under orange tube are componets of a hover craft, to the right and center are a few pieces of fiddling bits in 1, 1.5, and 2mm, in which I am wittling materials as needed, bottom left and right showing off my glue curing weights, center -in orocess robot componets: Legs, proplosion tracks, and head unit.

In addition to my robot vermin units, I have built two robots from kits, and one from scratch. I will be using a few of my leftover robot parts for my second scratch built robot.

The Humots

"Humots executed slow, rhythmic dances to an intricate pattern, heads nodding, clapping their own hands turning to clap others hands. Some were grotesquely male, some grotesquely female. In the door-ways, or sitting on old refrigrtators, other grotesques look on.

These were the humots-old type human-designed robots of the late twentieth and early twenty fifth centuries useless in an all-automatic world, scrapped when the old technology was scrapped."

Neanderthal Planet, Neanderthal Planet, Brian W. Aldiss

Neanderthal Planet

"Tales of Wonder and Terror!

This volumne is a collection of four of Aldiss's epic stories. First published in 1959.

On Neanderthal Planet the being were both less than human and more than human. Now they had to decide which way to go!

If you fall into the wrong matrix of the past, present or future you must beware of the choices you face. The sign is clear: Danger - Religion!

Intangebles, Inc. could not be be seen, but is ruled the lives - and deaths - of a couple and their children.

Since the Assassination a drug granting immortality is conceived; then moon vistors find that time is distorted. Would earth withstand such pressures?"

Neanderthal Planet, Brian W. Aldiss, First Avon printing in 1970.

Four Becomes Five and Five Four - RV #4 Complete

My forth robot vermin will become my fifth as my fifth bcomes number four. I had been working on these two simultaneously. When the former became too tedious I would switch over to number five.

This robot vermin stands about as tall as a US half dollar or approximently 34mm. The unit represents a intrusion detection sensor. It would, using a small hydrogen fuel cell, fly to it required location. Once there, it would land, the fins would be blown off by the means of a small charge, and using the built in cutting edges the unit would start to drill itself into the ground. Once at the required depth it would connect to the perimeter network and start to do its job in intrusion detection.

What is on your Workbench - Spare Parts

Spare Robot Parts - Arms, and Propulsion Units

Although I am putting finishing touches on my RV's five and six, I have started to ponder what my next project(s) will be? With the spare robot parts I am planning on building a robot or two. In addition, I have laid out the sides for a hover car. I don't know which project will get priority, but any rate, I do have, at least, two projects for next month.