Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and
talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for
generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny
circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana and trying to
uncover how far away his dream is.
He discovers that the robotics world is as weird as it is insanely
complicated. During his quest he meets a Japanese man who makes copies
of himself and his daughter, an Italian who claims he's found the key
to human intelligence in a video game and a Singaporean whose less than
promising looking homage to Dusty Bin, might just turn out to be the
robot of Danny's dreams.