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Originally Posted by EatingPie
R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots, by Karl Capek
It predicted just about every robot-vs.-human story ever written. They all follow the basic "fear of what we created" theme, popularized by the Terminator series and The Matrix series.
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Not all: There are plenty of robot stories and programs/movies that don't depict robots as "fearful creations," including
Star Wars,
Caves of Steel,
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
The Questor Tapes, the
Wild Cards series,
Astro Boy,
8th Man,
Ghost In The Shell,
Silent Running, the
Hal Spacejock series, etc.
In fact, I'd nominate
Silent Running as depicting robots as non-threatening subservient drones, devices we are beginning to see in industrial and healthcare areas.