The Far Side loved featuring mad scientists and their crazy inventions, with robots being the subject of some of Larson's best cartoons.

While newspapers perforce went with machines for printing, cartoons were almost entirely hand lettered from the beginning ...

In 1923, an editorial cartoonist named H.T. Webster drew a humorous cartoon for the New York World newspaper depicting a fictional 2023 machine that would generate ideas and draw them as cartoons ...

This hologram ice cream vending machine in Japan goes the extra mile to prepare your cone. The machine displays a real cone through a glass screen after you choose a flavor. Then, hologram cartoon ...