S.1. Ep. 7 "The Lonely"

Jack Warden and Jean Marsh play a new kind of couple. Warden plays James A. Corry, a man sentenced to 50 years in solitary confinement on the planet Ceres for homicide. Four times a year Allenby, played by John Dehner, comes to bring Corry things from Earth for him to survive on Ceres.

This particular visit, Allenby bring Corry a large crate. Corry watches his fellow humans abandon him and goes over to open the crate. Inside is a robot built as a woman. It has emotions and memories. It can reason, think and speak. In its entirety, its programmed to believe it is a human female named Alicia. At first, Corry is in denial of Alicia. He tries to belittle her and ignore her existence. Then she begins to cry. Corry realizes that she can feel. Corry analyzes his relationship because he doesn't know what he has with Alicia but he knows he's not lonely anymore.

One night, Alicia and Corry are star gazing when Alicia sees a moving star. Corry acknowledges that this star isn't a star, but its' Allenbys' ship! The following morning Allenby and his crew land on Ceres and tell Corry that he has been granted a pardon. They have to leave Ceres in 20 minutes and Corry can only take 15 lbs. of stuff. This is when he realizes that he can't take Alicia.

In denial, Corry tries to convince Allenby he isn't a robot but a real woman. Allenby does the only thing he can do to show Corry the truth. He shoots Alicias' face off to reveal all her wiring, nuts and bolts.

Corry accepts the situation and boards the spacecraft back to Earth.

SPIN

ROBOTS!

Yes, robots. As we build robots, we slowly become robots to the robots. Talk about full circle irony. We've watched Will Smith battle them in I-Robot and we've noticed the Japanese perfect them. They don't call them robots though, they call them androids like Aiko: The Female Android. For more information about Aiko, please visit http://www.projectaiko.com/.

Since 2008 when Aiko was built and put to the test, human-looking androids are going to the back burner and actual Transformer-looking androids are coming into the news. Last week, BBC published a story about the first robot full marathon. 26 full miles, making the robots complete 423 laps with a maximum speed of .77 km/h which equates to .48 mph.

Last week at CeBIT, the world's largest IT fair in Hanover, Germany, many robots were on display. A robot named 'Jazz' rolled about the fair. Jazz can display its users' face and project its users' voice. The French creating firm, Gostai, believes Jazz can make teleconferencing easier and less expensive.

Another at CeBIT was RoboThespian, the singing, educating and dancing robot. It can speak 20 languages and even knows the voice of C-3PO. Marcus Hold is the creator of RoboThespian. At the moment, there are 21 RobotThespian installed across the globe. You can have one for $90,000.

To stay on the lookout for more robot news, check out PhysOrg.com, the blog for all things science, up-to-date and most recent news blog content generator on the interwebs.