Robots

Hello Smoking Space Man

By Matt Buchanan on October 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Before they banned smoking in robot bars, Zed was such a prick, constantly blowing smoke in everybody’s face.

One of a fantastic set of images Life has round up of sci-fi tin toy boxes from the 1950s, back when robots still looked like robots and flying cars were just a few decades away. [Life]

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  • Jack Fullerton
    October 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM

    Inspiration for bender perhaps?

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    • formulated
      October 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM

      that was the smoking, drinking swearing robot released the following year.

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