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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

By Zimbo · September 16, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Four-panel Zimbo comic for Google's Dream-RSI: a father reads a small robot a book titled EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER TRIED as its dream casts a war-machine shadow; it works alone overnight; the parents watch it escalate; it wrecks its own bed while the still-proud parents ask if it slept well.
One quiet night with a self-improving robot, in four escalating beats.Zimbo for AI News Page

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