Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon is put in jeopardy when he and Professor Childermass try to find a robot made many years ago by an evil wizard. All that is needed to bring the robot to life are Johnny's eyes.
Photographs and text provide information about robots, explaining what they are and how they are controlled, and looking at many different types of robots and how people use them. Includes related activities.
A puzzling case of "roboticide" takes interplanetary detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora where humans are never far from a host of robot companions and servants.