Being a robotist, Derec is very interested in talking to the robot designer to learn why it created the building the way it did.

It has noise, wreckage, pseudo-sports commentary modeled on professional wrestling and the all-too-obvious décolletage of Carmen Electra, proffered to the camera as she asks a robot designer, after a bout, how it felt to have his weapon lopped off.

He is one of the most gifted robot designers in the world, and has vast experience in cybernetic and bionics.

The hardest thing of all, robot designers say, is to build a soldier that looks and acts human, like the "I, Robot" model imagined by Isaac Asimov and featured in the recent movie of the same name.

It had taken a lot of argument and discussion with the robot designer, an exceedingly conservative gentleman who was most reluctant to put the slightest restriction on First Law, but the result was Constricted First Law 001--CFL-001.

As they all worked together, Ms. Meriwether and Mr. Timbers acquainted the robot designers with the vagaries of blocking, technical rehearsals and the Ibsen-Strindberg rivalry.

The last few months have been heady ones for William L. Whittaker, the Carnegie-Mellon University professor considered one the nation's foremost robot designers.

It is named after Edward B. Lopez, III, a research engineer and industrial robot designer.

Why a robot designer would grant this spell to its creation is beyond normal comprehension.

It's well known that they were the leading robot designers in the Galaxy, even though the late Dr. Fastolfe is said to have been unparalleled in the field, despite the fact that he was an Auroran.