What is a robot anyway?

Published on Aug 06, 2021 10:29 pm IST

If you read and loved our August 8 feature on sentient robots to fear or hold dear, you might wonder why some of your favourites didn’t make it to our list. Turns out, not all techy characters can be classified as bots. HT’s Rachel Lopez explains why some of them were left out.

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