artificial intelligences and extremely humanoid robots/androids in sci-fi.
A series of books that immediately comes to mind starts with Caves of Steel and follows on with The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn and is by Asimov. In the first book, a police detective (Elijah Baley) on Earth investigates a murder, and is partnered with a humanoid android. It deals a lot with Lije's reaction to and interaction with Daneel (the robot) and also about the effect on a civilisation that robots have. I loved the books, especially the growing bond between the human and robot.
Good luck! Someone else has mention Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and that is another one of my great loves. Apart from some wonderful world building, and a revolution, you get to follow the development of the AI who runs the moon. I think I'm right in saying he doesn't appear as a robot, but at his most human communicates via video screens and a human looking avatar that he creates therein. Excellent stuff.
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artificial intelligences and extremely humanoid robots/androids in sci-fi.
A series of books that immediately comes to mind starts with Caves of Steel and follows on with The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn and is by Asimov. In the first book, a police detective (Elijah Baley) on Earth investigates a murder, and is partnered with a humanoid android. It deals a lot with Lije's reaction to and interaction with Daneel (the robot) and also about the effect on a civilisation that robots have. I loved the books, especially the growing bond between the human and robot.
Good luck!
Someone else has mention Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and that is another one of my great loves. Apart from some wonderful world building, and a revolution, you get to follow the development of the AI who runs the moon. I think I'm right in saying he doesn't appear as a robot, but at his most human communicates via video screens and a human looking avatar that he creates therein. Excellent stuff.