中文简介：

这些值得收藏的机器人来自过去对未来的设想。

本书探讨了维特拉设计博物馆所收藏的R.F.机器人系列中的172件太空主题玩具。这些机器人（还有宇航员）主要是在1937年至1973年间在日本生产的，多年来，维特拉设计博物馆前主席、创始人罗尔夫·费尔鲍姆（Rolf Fehlbaum）对它们进行了仔细的研究和汇编，并将它们描述为“颇具独创性的小型动态雕塑”。

自从“机器人”这个词在捷克作家卡雷尔·阿佩克（Karel apek）1921年的科幻剧《R.U.R.》中首次出现以来，它既为人类服务，也接管了人类的工作，造成了人类的依赖性，有时还造成了社会权力动态的转变。本书以1:2的比例展示了这些玩具及其原始包装，最大的机器人决定了这本书的大小。这传达了机器人的神秘本质和它们的模糊性，而包装盒上生动的插图让人了解到这一时期发展的未来主义幻想。其中一些页面附有二维码链接，上面展示了该页机器人的活动短视频。

英文简介：

Collectible "kinetic sculptures" from bygone visions of the future, in a new compact edition

This compact volume explores the 172 space-themed toys in the R.F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. Largely produced in Japan between 1937 and 1973, these figures of robots (and the occasional astronaut) have been carefully researched and compiled over the years by Rolf Fehlbaum, former Chairman of Vitra and founder of the Vitra Design Museum, who describes them as "small kinetic sculptures of great originality."

Ever since the term's first appearance in Czech writer Karel apek's science-fiction play R.U.R. in 1921, robots have both served and taken over the work of humans, creating human dependency and, at times, a shift in the power dynamics of a society. Robots 1:2 shows the toys and their original packaging (where available, as it was seldom preserved) on a scale of 1:2, with the largest robot determining the size of the book. This conveys something of the uncanny nature of the robots and their general ambiguity, while the vivid illustrations on the boxes give an idea of the futuristic fantasies developed over the period. QR codes for some of the robots link to a page with short videos showing them in action.