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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants

Follows Rose Franklin, first as a young girl near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota where she falls through the earth and discovers a giant metal hand, then seventeen years later as a highly trained physicist leading a team trying to crack the hand's code

"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every question answered about the mysterious contraption raises two...

After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl

"It's time to power down for the night, but Little Robot isn't ready! He quickly opens his stalling program. Luckily, Mom Unit knows exactly how to get him into his sleep module"--

Robot and Rico go to the museum and take part in a scavenger hunt

Rico tries to help Robot fix his race car and waits patiently for his turn to drive it

"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...

Megraton lures Optimus Prime to Sam's college lab, where a supermagnet traps the Autobot leader and strips him of the ability to transform out of his semitruck form

Explores the impact of devices such as robotics, digital cameras, iPods, and video games.This volume focuses on robots by exploring how they were developed, how they work, its impact on society, and possible future uses.