ROBOTRONIKA Symposium: "Mythos Roboter. Facts and Fiction" In both the cinema and the toy store, robots literally embody and reflect dominant (and patriarchal) culture's fantasies of technological mastery and intentional agency. Focusing on a selection of science fiction films and robotic toys, my presentation will explore the ideology of this "robotic imagination"--particularly as it has found its concrete and material embodiment in figures deemed to be "less human than human"--the animal, the child, the female, and the racialized Other.