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Robots: the animated docu-soap

2000
film

Just another day in the life of three ordinary robots suffering for their art - Jackson, a painter/sculptor; Roland, a composer/musician; and Hands, a champio..

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Living tomorrow. No. 135

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Robots: computers at work (Captioned)

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