Summary James May sets off to discover if his childhood vision of a world populated by robots will ever become a reality. In Japan he is charmed by a woman wearing an electro-mechanical jumpsuit that can double her strength, before encountering a robot that's almost. In the US, he meets the two million dollar bionic woman, and, in the unlikeliest of laboratories, he is astonished by the most sophisticated walking robot in the world. But is James' vision of the future just a little old fashioned? To find out he takes his first nervous step into another world where he becomes a ghost within a machine.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : James May Hiroshi Ishiguro Christopher James Peter Frankel
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Oct 4, 2008
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) The Open University
Summary James May sets off to discover if his childhood vision of a world populated by robots will ever become a reality. In Japan he is charmed by a woman wearing an electro-mechanical jumpsuit that can double her strength, before encountering a robot that's almost. In the US, he meets the two million dollar bionic woman, and, in the unlikeliest of laboratories, he is astonished by the most sophisticated walking robot in the world. But is James' vision of the future just a little old fashioned? To find out he takes his first nervous step into another world where he becomes a ghost within a machine.
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Oct 4, 2008
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) The Open University
