Bolts, a Robot Dog

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Key, Alexander. Bolts, a Robot Dog (1966); Rivets and Sprockets (1964); Sprockets, a Little Robot (1963). All illus. Alexander Key. Philadelphia: Westminster P.

Details the adventures of the Bailey family with Sprockets, a little robot accidentally given an "Asimov positronic brain," and with his half-brother Rivets and Bolts, a robot dog. See M. Esmonde TMG entry under Literary Criticism, at internal link.

+++++++++++++++++ As of the end of April 2025, there was on Facebook a brief ("Reel"?) video of a robotic dog in China carrying a cat; probably ephemeral, but try here.[1]


RDE, initial; finishing 30Ap25