does bob need a battery?

Whoah. Whoah. It has been a LONG time since Bob has written a blog post. And Human Companion has been rather busy too. Not to say that Bob hasn't made any appearances recently.

More on that soon. In the meantime, *we* thought it'd be good to share this little gem of an insight about wind-up tin toy robots from Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. Apparently they were the first to put batteries in robots. And do it cheap. Who would have thought? And who ever says that earth-shattering innovations don't happen in Japan??