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• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Automata Old and New (London: Imp. at the Chiswick press, 1893), by Conrad William Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): Kolektivní Drama o Vstupní Komedii a 3 Dějstvích (in Czech; Prague: Aventinum, 1922), by Karel Čapek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Karel Čapek, trans. by David Wyllie (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (in Czech), by Karel Čapek (Gutenberg text)
• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): Kolektivní Drama o Vstupní Komedii a 3 Dějstvích (in Czech; Prague: Aventinum, 1920), by Karel Čapek (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Electric Man: Being the One Act Version of the Successful Three Act Farcical Comedy of the Same Name (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by Charles Hannan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mechanical Jane: A Play In One Act for Three Ladies (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by M. E. Barber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modus Operandi, or, The Automaton Chess-Player: A Play in Three Acts, With Prefatory Remarks, and Extracts From Original Letters on De Kempelin's Automaton Chess-Player, Published in 1784 (London: T. H. Lacy, 1866), by J. Walker, contrib. by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Planning Algorithms (free online edition, c2006), by Steven Michael LaValle (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at uiuc.edu)

• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• The Defenders (as published in Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953), by Philip K. Dick, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Huge Hunter: or, The Steam Man of the Prairies, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Virtual Danger, by Teel McClanahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB

• Simulant Portrait (1990), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• The Memory of Mars (as published in Amazing Stories, December 1961), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ware Tetralogy (consisting of Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware; Creative Commons edition, 2010), by Rudy v. B. Rucker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sugar the Robot and the Race to Save the Earth (c2013), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• Do Not Feed the Troll! (c2014), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• The Wonderful Electric Elephant (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1927), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by C. M. Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots (c2005), by Stéphane Ducasse (PDF in France)

• An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player, of Mr. de Kempelen: With an Easy Method of Imitating the Movements of that Celebrated Figure, Illustrated by Original Original Drawings; To Which is Added, A Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves Over the Chess Board (London: Printed for J. Booth, 1821), by Robert Willis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Letters of Charles Gottlieb de Windisch on the Automaton Chess-Player of Mr. de Kempelen: A Free Translation From the German (London: Printed by R. Brown, 1819), by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Automaton Chess Player, Now Exhibited in London, at 4, Spring Gardens (London: J. Hatchard, 1819), by Oxford graduate
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Chess: A Selection of Fifty Games, From Those Played by the Automaton Chess-Player, During Its Exhibition in London, in 1820 (London: W. Pople, printer, 1820), ed. by W. Hunneman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)