Sidney, the Screwloose Robot, was a true pioneer. (Nov. 1, 2017)

An opera about a robot's love affair, financed by the government. (Nov. 8, 2017)

How advanced was radio in the 1930s? It had a robot announcer. (Nov. 22, 2017)

Three stories about a Martian super-robot... or maybe a wonderful magazine editor. (Dec. 6, 2017)

An early robot story by the creator of the Human Torch. (Dec. 20, 2017)

Robots will take over baseball. A prediction from 1905! (Jan. 4, 2018)

The very first robot toy and his atomic successor. (Jan. 24, 2018)

The very first robot toy and his atomic successor. (Jan. 24, 2018)

Fritz Leiber's wild satire of the future of writing and publishing. (Feb. 21, 2018)

Thought that Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Machine was bonkers? Try this half-hour commercial for it. (March 7, 2018)

A sitcom robot father and son comic, from the pages of Popeye.  (March 21, 2018)

"Cowering Nude with Robot" and other proposed murals from a deeply eccentric artist. (April 4, 2018)

Roy Thomas pulled the look of Ultron from... a Captain Video comic book? (April 18, 2018)

The world-wide board game sensation with an all-knowing robot at its center. (May 2, 2018)

L. Frank Baum's first robot, long before Tik-Tok. (May 16, 2018)

Indie band Servotron ignites the robot revolution. (May 30, 2018)

Forties' comics had everything - including matching Nazi robot dinosaur war machines. (June 13, 2018)

For the first time in 100 years: a lost robot story by H. P. Holt. (June 27, 2018)

How to defeat intelligent robots? Use stupid robots, of course! (July 4, 2018)

The biggest animatronic robot show of all time, indelibly set in the minds of millions. (July 18, 2018)

The Labor Dept. invented a robot to tell people why it was OK for machines to take jobs during the Depression.  (August 1, 2018)

Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson is a double of herself in The World Is Not Enough music video.  (August 15, 2018)

In the far future our survivors may turn to a robot to learn about our culture.  (August 29, 2018)

The trials of living with a household robot in an imaginary future as seen from 1933.  (September 12, 2018)

Music hath charms, but not when robots play it. (September 26, 2018)

The first serious attempt at a real, working robot was a dog. But that was a good thing. (October 9, 2018)

Some lucky kids got to watch robots on afternoon children's shows in the 50s and 60s. (October 24, 2018)

They didn't conquer much except the hearts of teen boys in Boy's Life magazine for 20 years. (November 7, 2018)

Back to the halcyon days when a boy could build a robot in his basement and become a national hero. (November 21, 2018)

The American Can Company asked: what is a robot but a series of cans? And rolled out Canco Charlie in 1950. (December 5, 2018)

The loony Metal Men get killed off in their first appearance. But you can just make more, right? (December 19, 2018)

The loony Metal Men get killed off in their first appearance. But you can just make more, right? (December 19, 2018)

The brilliant Boris and his wonderful machinalia. (January 16, 2019)

The brilliant Boris and his wonderful machinalia. (January 16, 2019)

British kids in the 60s thrilled to "Space Ace," "Rex from Planet X," and "Rob the Robot". (February 13, 2019)

There was only one place to buy robots in 1938 and it wasn't U.S. Robotics.  (February 27, 2019)

The monster's a robot, the ape's a gorilla, and the fate of the industrial future is in their hands. (March 13, 2019)

Is a robot a better worker than a human? If the human is Tillie, the answer is a definite yes. (March 27, 2019)

The clock's a microphone, the table an elevator. Spies? No, an early automated hotel. (April 10, 2019)

The Three Stooges as robot superheroes? Not a fever dream, but a real 70s cartoon show. (April 24, 2019)

A robot teacher may not cut you any slack, but it's sure handy to have around when the bad guys attack. (May 8, 2019)

The same robot in two very different bodies, leading to endless confusion - cleared up here for the first time. (May 22, 2019)

Superman vs. Metalo, and also Metallo, and another Metallo, and Metallo's brother. Comics! (June 5, 2019)

A peek into the future where robots will be our servants... unless they kill us all. (June 19, 2019)

The robot mascot of the University of Florida is a baby boomer still wowing them in the 21st century. (July 3, 2019)

Arthur C. Clarke predicts how futuristic the world would be on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. (July 17, 2019)

A magic house with dilating doors and hidden panels, tended by a vacuum-cleaning robot. (July 31, 2019)

The Army wanted cyborgs who could lift 1500 lb. They got one that could twirl a hula hoop. (August  14, 2019)

Army cyborgs that walk on the Moon or in Vietnam and have the strength of a platoon. (August 28, 2019)

Amazingly, Hugo Gernsback also wanted to start the first science fiction comic. (September 11, 2019)

Science fiction: isn't that that Buck Rogers stuff? Most people said yes, enthusiastically. (September 28, 2019)
 

Carl Barks, the greatest Disney comics artist, created the greatest robot sidekick of them all. (October 9, 2019)

The PRAD, NASA's crash test dummy. (October 23, 2019)

Inspector Wheelz had a Wonderful Dummy all the way back in 1903.  (November 6, 2019)

What better way to boast about your improved gas than with a a squad of robots?  (November 20, 2019)

Perhaps the first computer crime story: from 1898!  (December 4, 2019)

The half-century chase to have a device in your living room that your cat could ride on. (December 18, 2019)