Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Les Robots — published in English as I, Robot — is a collection of linked short stories tracing an imagined history of robotics, told through Dr. Susan Calvin's recollections to a journalist decades after the fact. Each tale probes the boundary between human and machine: what it means to think, to feel, to follow a rule and find the rule broken. The taste it signals is philosophical science fiction — stories that treat technology as a mirror for ethics and identity, across any medium. If that tension between created minds and their creators draws you in, there's a lot waiting.
I, Robot is a fixup collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. In 1950, the stories were compiled into a single publication by Gnome Press, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies.
From the Wikipedia article I,_Robot, available under CC BY-SA.
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Robot & Frank
A robot assigned as caretaker quietly reshapes an old man's daily life, making its presence feel indispensable.
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Short Circuit
A machine that begins to think of itself as human escapes institutional control, raising questions about personhood.
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Robot Holocaust
A robot sidekick navigates a post-apocalyptic world alongside a human, where the line between ally and tool blurs.
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I, Robot
A detective in 2035 suspects a robot of murder, probing whether machines bound by laws can still be dangerous.
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Robot Jox
Giant piloted robots settle geopolitical disputes, exploring how humans project power and identity through machines.
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Uncanny
A reporter given access to an artificially lifelike robot begins to question what she is actually observing.
Series
Humans
Robotic servants so similar to humans that their presence is quietly transforming every corner of domestic life.
Series
Z.O.E Dolores, i
A grieving father drifts into a new life, his relationships mediated by the distance between human feeling and duty.
Series
My Robot Boyfriend
A man made half-machine after an accident must navigate relationships that now straddle the human and the mechanical.
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Robot Carnival
An anthology of nine robot stories by different directors, each treating the subject from a distinct moral angle.
Series
Better Than Us
A forensic investigator is drawn into the first murder committed by an experimental humanoid, testing legal and moral limits.
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The Cyberfarm
A farmer's robot-aided life on Mars is threatened by corporate interests, asking who automation ultimately serves.
Game
Choice of Robots
An interactive novel where the robots you design reflect the moral choices you make across 300,000 branching words.
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Mr. Robot
A service robot named Asimov must act independently when the ship's controlling intelligence breaks down catastrophically.
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2064: Read Only Memories
A cyberpunk world where augmented humans and artificial minds coexist, each testing the boundaries of identity.
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Analogue: A Hate Story
An AI aboard a lost spacecraft interacts with an investigator through logs, raising questions about memory and self.
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A.I.M.: Artificial Intelligence Machine
A planet where artificial intelligences have proliferated becomes the arena for their own unresolved conflicts.
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Robotech: The Macross Saga
A side-scrolling shoot 'em up set in the Robotech universe, putting players inside the cockpit of mechanized combat.
Book
Isaac Asimov's Robot City 1 - Odyssey
A man with no memory wakes in a city overrun by malfunctioning robots, needing to trust machines to survive.
Book
The Robot Novels
Two Asimov novels — The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun — set in his Robot universe.
Book
Norby, the Mixed-up Robot
A student and a robot with unusual abilities must cooperate to stop someone intent on seizing total power.
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Intergalactic empires
A collection of science fiction stories exploring governance, society, and the forces that shape civilizations.
Book
The Mad Scientists Daughter
An android tutor programmed to assist has no wish to be human, yet his presence reshapes a young woman's life entirely.
Book
Service Model
A household robot named Charles encounters a serious fault and must navigate the consequences on his own.
The 2004 film I, Robot adapts Asimov's three laws into a thriller, while the TV series Humans explores the same moral tension — synthetic servants gaining consciousness — with gripping drama across two seasons.
Choice of Robots is a 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel where your decisions shape whether robots become companions or conquerors — exactly the kind of human-robot moral dilemma Asimov loved. 2064: Read Only Memories offers a cyberpunk mystery built around robot rights.
The Robot Novels collects Asimov's own The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, following the same universe with a detective-and-robot partnership. Service Model is another sharp take on a robot servant who unexpectedly develops self-awareness.