Man-Machine
James May sets off to discover if his childhood vision of a world populated by robots will ever become a reality.
James May sets off to discover if his childhood vision of a world populated by robots will ever become a reality. He begins in Japan, where he is charmed by a woman wearing an electro-mechanical jumpsuit that can double her strength, before having a close encounter of the weird kind with a robot that's almost human - it's designed to look and behave exactly like its creator.
In the US, he meets the two million dollar bionic woman, and, in the unlikeliest of laboratories, he is astonished by the most sophisticated walking robot in the world, not because it can climb stairs and run, but because it walks straight into a door.
But is James' vision of the future just a little old-fashioned? To find out, he takes his first nervous step into a world where he becomes a ghost within a machine.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | James May |
Producer | Nigel Paterson |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Oct 2008 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Yorkshire
- Thu 9 Oct 2008 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two England
- Sat 13 Dec 2008 01:40Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One except Northern Ireland
- Thu 18 Dec 2008 00:10Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Northern Ireland
- Sun 25 Jan 2009 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Yorkshire
- Sun 10 Jan 2010 22:40Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Wales (Analogue) & Yorkshire
- Tue 12 Feb 2019 22:30