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'''"Humanoids on the march."''' ''The Economist'' (London) 12 March 2005: 3-4. The Economist Technological Quarterly. 


"Robotics: Humanoid robots are becoming every more advanced. Are the firms making them just interested in publicity, or are they chasing a new market?" The Economist answers its question by asserting that there is a lot of publicity to be had with humanoid robots, but also, just possibly, there may be a market for humanoid robots as "domestic helpers." Along the way to its commercial point, the article hits some high moments in the history of dramatic humanoid robots from ''[[R. U. R.]]'' through [[METROPOLIS]] to [[THE TERMINATOR]] (a cyborg with a robot chasis, to be exact).