We're assuming a totally conscious robot, all of its activity directed by consciousness.

The very idea of building a conscious robot can be faced only if we recognize the implicit danger - that we may be building a Golem that'll destroy us.

Jihad, Butlerian - Mankind's "crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots."

Conscious decisions are reducible to little more than evolutionary programming; and human beings are, as the books title suggests, little more than conscious robots.

Since 1993, at MCon, he developed and holds patents on the design of conscious, emotional and intelligent humanoid robots.

Ixian devices are commonplace and considered essential throughout the rest of the series, though they sometimes test the limits of the anti-technology proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad, mankind's crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots.

In the Appendix of Dune, Frank Herbert notes that there are over 13,300 worlds under Landsraad influence immediately after the Butlerian Jihad, humankind's "crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots."

This battle marks the end of the Butlerian Jihad, mankind's crusade against computers, thinking machines and conscious robots.

A common theme is the development of a master race of conscious and highly intelligent robots, motivated to take over or destroy the human race.

Herbert's brief description of mankind's "crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots" was expanded by Brian Herbert and Anderson into a violent and generations-spanning war between humans and sentient machines.