I love this illustration:
Article about the robot-face-guy: 
The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot:
There he quickly scanned the room and spotted Kristen Nelson chatting with a guy at the bar. Hanson walked past once or twice, and they smiled at each other. Finally he walked up and said hello. "Can I measure your skull?" he asked. [...] She remembers it slightly differently: "He asked, 'Can I make you into a robot?'"
I like the little chart about emotional response, specifically how you go from "toy robot" to "walking corpse" to "accurate humanoid."
I want to get into robotics now, just so I can build a "walking corpse" robot, which roams the earth, powering itself by feeding on braaaaaaiiiiiiiiiins.
So is the "walking corpse" goth?
Until you run electricity through it and send it out to befriend small children.
Then it's rivethead.
He spent two years in the late '80s as an aimless physics major...
Nope, never knew any aimless physics majors. Nope.