Robots Running Wild

by Andrew Parker

Two twelve-year-olds, Mary and Tommy, are laid up after a car crash. Their Uncle Frank, a retired military roboticist, gives them two Army robots. With voice commands and joysticks, the kids send the machines to school in their place. After classes, the duo trot the behemoths downtown to chase purse snatchers and stop bank robberies. They're crime fighters. The fun ends when Boris Babamski, evil mastermind, hacks into robots to launch Operation Destroy Technology. Suicide loony-bot bombers wreak havoc. When Uncle Frank’s robots are corrupted, Mary and Tommy infiltrate Boris’s fortress and struggle to reprogram the bots before the mechanized demons reverse the course of evolution. If the couple fail, the world will regress to prehistoric times. The fun ends when Boris Babamski, evil mastermind, hacks into robots to launch Operation Destroy Technology. Suicide loony-bot bombers wreak havoc. When Uncle Frank’s robots are corrupted, Mary and Tommy infiltrate Boris’s fortress and struggle to reprogram the bots before the mechanized demons reverse the course of evolution. If the couple fail, the world will regress to prehistoric times.

447 pages, Paperback

Published January 9, 2017

About the author

Andrew Parker is a zoologist who has worked on Biomimetics. He worked at the Natural History Museum in London, and from 1990 to 1999 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and University of Sydney and from 1999 until 2005 he worked at the University of Oxford. As of 2018 Parker is a Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College where he is head of a Research Team into photonic structures and eyes.