{"id":3757,"date":"2013-09-03T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2013-09-03T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T20:45:29","slug":"the-greatest-robot-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"The greatest robot ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of writing The Glass Cage<\/a>, I’ve had cause to do some research into the history of robots. I have, after much reflection, concluded that the greatest robot of all time is Giganta, not only because it’s a robot that “automatically produces fun” but also because it’s “designed with feet indentations so children can rest.” (I hope our future overlords have such thoughtful features.)<\/p>\n

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I don’t hand out the title of best robot ever lightly. I’m also very fond of the “does not compute”\u00a0robot on Lost in Space<\/em>, who bore the appropriately utilitarian name of The Robot, and it’s no secret that I carry a torch for the Jetson’s robot maid, Rosie. But, despite its total lack of ambulatory and verbal capabilities, Giganta rules. (R2-D2 and C-3PO, on the other hand, were dweebs; they set the cause of robots back by three light-years at least.)<\/p>\n

Footnote: I’m pretty sure that Giganta the robot is not related in any way to the DC Comics character Giganta<\/a>, who seems to be designed for anything but fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the course of writing The Glass Cage, I’ve had cause to do some research into the history of robots. I have, after much reflection, concluded that the greatest robot of all time is Giganta, not only because it’s a robot that “automatically produces fun” but also because it’s “designed with feet indentations so children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}