Overview
Professor Ernest Belman constructs Olga, a female robot modelled on his niece Penelope, and hires Roger Cavendish to escort the machine in public as a test of whether she can pass as human. Penelope secretly takes Olga's place, creating a farce when the real robot later joins them.
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Olga is a deliberately human-looking female robot created as the professor's idea of a 'perfect woman'. She is designed closely enough to Penelope for the human woman to impersonate the machine, while Olga's behaviour is controlled through code words and she can be switched off. The film is an unusually early example of a humanoid female robot being tested for social believability.
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Professor Belman presents Olga
Belman explains that he has created a female robot named Olga and wants to determine whether the machine can pass convincingly as a human woman in public.
Penelope impersonates the robot
Penelope pretends to be Olga and mimics the robot's programmed responses, demonstrating how closely the real woman and the artificial duplicate resemble one another.
The real Olga arrives
The genuine robot eventually joins the group, creating confusion between Penelope and the artificial woman she has been impersonating.