![]() With a brain the size of a planet and a capacity for happiness you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first, Marvin the Paranoid Android is a hilariously droll and sarcastic robot whose hyper intelligence is wasted on performing menial tasks on board the starship Heart of Gold. Marvin the Paranoid Android ( The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) I love him for the way he is hard to categorise and we need to think about the question: what is a robot?Ĭhosen by: Dr Tacye Phillipson, Senior Curator of Science Tacye (pictured in the Robots exhibition) will be introducing the films at the Retro Robots Film Night 2. But if he is a robot, when did he become one as his flesh was replaced by metal? Of course in reality we have prosthetic limbs and kidney dialysis and mechanical heart pumps but no equivalent of replacing someone’s brain – yet. Is he a robot? Just look at him, a mechanical metal man who does not sleep, even in a poppy field. Does it remind you of your childhood? Make you laugh? Make you think?Īhead of our Robots Retro Film Night, we’ve put together a top ten list with the help of our staff: 1. ![]()
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