Kimagure Robot

An eccentric scientist builds robots that promise ingenious solutions to human problems, but his inventions rarely behave as neatly as their purposes suggest. In the laboratory and in their owners' hands, apparently simple tasks expose unexpected habits, limitations, and consequences.

Even a spacecraft threatened by a voracious plant must work through an assortment of machines in search of a useful answer. Technical sophistication offers no guarantee of good judgment, and the difference between a brilliant invention and a ridiculous mistake can be remarkably small.