Philip K. Dick robot flees offworld
by Marc Perton 
posted Feb 13th 2006 at 4:28PM
Replicants, they call them. Created for offworld
work. When one of them goes missing, they call me in. But this one's different. Created in the likeness of Philip K. Dick by Hanson Robotics.
Vanished suddenly. Missing for weeks. No one knows what happened. But the story is that some museum called the
Smithsonian wanted to put him in a box and display him around the country. Not something a replicant would want. I
suspect this one has already found some like-minded supporters who will attempt to keep it offworld indefinitely. Too
bad he won't live. But then again, who does?
Filed under: Robots
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RICE @ Feb 13th 2006 4:45PM
They found uncle ED.
san @ Feb 13th 2006 4:46PM
Oh that was inspired Marc.
Tom @ Feb 13th 2006 4:51PM
Nice homage to Blade Runner.
jc @ Feb 13th 2006 5:02PM
I bet he was just off taking a nap... dreaming of electric sheep.
Tim - Columbus, OH @ Feb 13th 2006 5:16PM
Is he dreaming of unicorns?
james @ Feb 13th 2006 5:42PM
hey, at least i got to see it at next fest
dan peltier @ Feb 13th 2006 5:57PM
one word. WTF.
BillyBob_jcv @ Feb 13th 2006 6:00PM
No, he's dreaming of electric sheep...
Beowulf @ Feb 13th 2006 6:11PM
methinks Engadget needs to attribute sites like boingboing in the text instead of expecting people to click on the link to learn it wasn't written here.
suresh kumar @ Feb 13th 2006 7:00PM
looks like UK ex-Labour MP, Robin Cook !
EatingPie @ Feb 13th 2006 7:49PM
Never can be too many references to BladeRunner...
Philip K. Dick, however, did NOT coin the term "REPLICANT" nor did he ever use it in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Just a reminder in case you're a chicken head like JF and tend to forget such things... :)
Wait a second here... I just pulled a coin outta my pocket with PKD's likeness on it...
-Pie
Russell Kinsella @ Feb 13th 2006 9:05PM
How ironic.
MAybe someday they can make that robot a great writer.
Russell Kinsella @ Feb 13th 2006 9:06PM
To #10 That wouldve happened in 1982 when he died and was put into half-life
Donnie @ Feb 14th 2006 10:20AM
Here's the link to the AFP story on Yahoo.
kbiel @ Feb 14th 2006 5:13PM
To #12: One can of UBIK can fix that.