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* YASID(s): Robot looks at doll's head...Gary R. Schmidt
+- Re: YASID(s): Robot looks at doll's head...Moriarty
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 by: Gary R. Schmidt - Tue, 21 Mar 2023 02:26 UTC

Hi,

This is one of those YASIDs that probably has more than one answer...

A vague memory of something read in the last fifty-odd went past, about
a robot/cyborg/mecha/whatever holding a doll's head and trying to
process just exactly what it is, and why.

Let the games begin!

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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 by: Moriarty - Tue, 21 Mar 2023 02:53 UTC

On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 1:29:09 PM UTC+11, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is one of those YASIDs that probably has more than one answer...
>
> A vague memory of something read in the last fifty-odd went past, about
> a robot/cyborg/mecha/whatever holding a doll's head and trying to
> process just exactly what it is, and why.

That sounds sorta like John Scalzi's "Three Robots Experience Objects Left Behind from the Era of Humans for the First Time", which was adapted as "Three Robots" for the Netflix series "Love, Death and Robots".

That won't be it though: far too recent.

-Moriarty

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 by: Quadibloc - Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:09 UTC

On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 8:29:09 PM UTC-6, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

> A vague memory of something read in the last fifty-odd went past, about
> a robot/cyborg/mecha/whatever holding a doll's head and trying to
> process just exactly what it is, and why.

Maybe the cover of an issue of _Creative Computing_?

Ah, yes. The January 1980 issue.

https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198001

John Savard

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 by: Quadibloc - Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:15 UTC

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 12:09:06 AM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 8:29:09 PM UTC-6, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>
> > A vague memory of something read in the last fifty-odd went past, about
> > a robot/cyborg/mecha/whatever holding a doll's head and trying to
> > process just exactly what it is, and why.
> Maybe the cover of an issue of _Creative Computing_?
>
> Ah, yes. The January 1980 issue.
>
> https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198001

There's also the cartoon featured on this page...

https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/08/cartoons-by-ron-cobb-for-the-los-angeles-free-press-1965-1970/cartoons-by-ron-cobb-2/

A human, not a doll, is being held by the robot, but the human is so small compared
to the robot, he seems like a doll.

John Savard

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