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Fifty Years of Shit Robots

88. I ROBOT (Part 2): THE SHOCKING TRUTH

Season 7, Ep. 3

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. In the second part of our Asimov mini series we look at two more iterations of I-Robot. Both are from the TV show, Outer Limits, and both based on the story that inspired Isaac Asimov.


WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. 


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NOTES


EANDO BINDER

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder_eando

 

ADAM LINK IN COMICS

https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/adam-link-in-the-comics/

 

ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jan/07/robot-wars-100-years-reboot-karel-capek-play-rur-rossums-universal-robots

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