500 YEARS OF ROBOTS: A new exhibition at the Science Museum charts the rise of substitute humans Chris Biddle reports

摘要

One evening in 1979, television viewers who hadn't gone to make a cup of tea in the middle of News at Ten, saw something very unusual, a commercial break completely taken up by one ad. It was a two-minute triumph showing a car being put together in a factory, with not a dirty blue overall in sight.