Heed the Robot by Sr. Astronomer Seth Shostak
February 01, 2012
If robots have tear ducts, they'll be giving them a good workout this week. Dick Tufeld, the voice of one of television's most famous robots, has died at the age of 85.
In case you don't remember, the TV robot in question was the mildly helpful, low-grade artificial-intelligence-on-wheels in the 1960s series Lost in Space. More loquacious than R2-D2 but less worldly than C-3P0, the robot was best known for his trademark alarm "Danger, Will Robinson!" Apparently, and despite his obviously limited abilities to walk or change expression, this mechanical sidekick was possessed of some kind of sixth sense for imminent threat. He could have snared a job at a convenience store.
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