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Originally Posted by Dave  I've found out that the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Steel" was itself based on a Richard Matheson's short story. Also, "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", a 2004 episode of The Simpsons, was inspired by this episode. |
I read a short story in the 1950s called "Jingle In The Jungle". It featured a boxing trainer named Charlie Jingle who had pieced together an old boxing robot for a big fight in which, of course, the odds were not in his favor. Can't remember the author. But it seems the idea of fighting machines is not at all a new thing.