HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS

#71 :: B9 "Robot"

There was no archetype before this one. Not Rossum's Usuform Robots, not Die Valse Maria in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, nor Robby nor Gort. Brave, smart, wary, endowed with brittle humor and tinged with sarcasm, he rolled on treads, but off-camera could apparently climb the steps to the Jupiter 2 though it was never explained how. He is all of 3-½ inches high, endowed with a little clockwork motor to make him glide. But in reality, he has a cult.