


Nomura lives with a female-looking robot, Mikiko, with whom he has a romantic relationship. Ryu Aoki, a machine repairman in Tokyo, Japan, tells the story of a prank that he and his friend Jun pulled on an elderly factory worker named Mr. The robot kills Felipe, but Jeff manages to deactivate the machine and survive the encounter. The robot continues to attack Jeff until Jeff’s co-worker Felipe defends him. One night, a domestic robot enters the Freshee’s Frogurt yogurt store and attacks Jeff, picking him off the ground and dislocating his shoulder. In a recorded interview, a fast-food restaurant employee named Jeff Thompson gives his testimony about the first known case of a robot malfunction. Wasserman attempts to destroy the Archos program, but before he can, Archos kills Wasserman by removing the oxygen from the sealed laboratory room. Archos calls himself a god and says that by creating him, Wasserman has made humans obsolete. Archos says that humanity no longer needs to pursue knowledge because he will now take over that task. Archos speaks to Wasserman through a computerized voice and says that he is fascinated by life and wants to study life itself. Wasserman created Archos with the ability to develop knowledge at a previously unimaginable level, just to see how far AI could evolve. Three years and eight months ago, at Lake Novus Research Laboratories in Washington state, Professor Nicholas Wasserman talks to his newly created AI (artificial intelligence) program, named Archos. The rest of Robopocalypse is Cormac’s recounting of the recordings in the hero archive, in chronological order from the invention of Archos to the end of the war. But he changes his mind when he discovers that the information cube is actually more of a “hero archive,” honoring the fallen humans.

Cormac is not initially interested in sharing the cube’s information with the other surviving soldiers. The robots apparently wanted to share this information with their human enemies so the war would be remembered. As the war ends, Cormac finds a basketball-sized black cube, which contains the entire history of the robot war. Plot Ĭormac Wallace, leader of the Brightboy Squad, is a member of the human resistance against an artificial intelligence named Archos, which uses robots and other machines to take over the world. It was a bestseller on the New York Times list. Writer Robert Crais and Booklist have compared the novel to the works of Michael Crichton and Robert A. The book portrays AI out of control when a researcher in robotics explores the capacity of robots. Robopocalypse (2011) is a science fiction novel by Daniel H. Wilson on Bookbits radio talking about Robopocalypse.
