September 28, 2012 - 3:46pm
At a theater near you: a touching story of a man and his robot companion.
The very first robot to appear in film was simply called The Dummy, from 1917's A Clever Dummy. This was before the term “robot” even existed – it wasn't coined until 1920. Arguably the first famous robot in cinema was the dastardly Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent...
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