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Bulgarian artist's robot cartoon warned us 37 years ago

Monday October 13, 2025. 01:50 PM , from BoingBoing
In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering robot— but the robot's mechanical hands grip puppet strings attached directly to the engineer himself. Who's really in control?
The image appeared in Szpilki (Polish for 'Pins'), a satirical magazine founded in 1935 by Zbigniew Mitzner, Erik Lipiński, and Zenon Wasilewski. — Read the rest
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