Sgt. Tom Van Ansdell of the Beverly Hills, Calif., police department displays a 4-foot robot at police station in Beverly Hills on August 18, 1982. The robot, complete with color television screen and camera, micro computer and two-day communications, was taken into police custody after it was found clanking through Beverly Hills during Tuesday rush hour. Police took the robot into custody when the person, as yet unidentified, operating it by remote control, refused to identify himself to police. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)