It detailed the popular culture history of robots and associated tropes including the early clockwork dolls, Golem, R.U.R, the famed false clockwork magician trick and other famous “clockwork” oddities, frauds and ideas (I seem to remember a clockwork fencer bloodying a human opponent); an old cover from the seminal SF magazine Metal Hurlant (Heavy Metal anyone?) depicting two sultry fembots attacking one another (ooh, those continentals!); and lots of 50′s, 60′s and 70′s comic and film images – Buck Rogers, Star Wars (of course) and a bazillion other robot-related things. A very in depth book on how popular culture has perceiced and embraced all things “robotic” – and although i was a kid, it was kinda somehow not a kids book per se.

Sigh. I haven’t thought about that book for a *long* time. Thanks guys. An inspiring trip down memory lane was just had.

Any chance you remember the name of the robotics history book you referred to in the opening paragraph of your post? I’d like to look for a copy for my own daughter [and, myself too, I suppose] to read.

Great image, too. ^_^