“According to Phil: A Young Thinker’s Guide to Robots” is in production and due out later this year. The book features an endearing mechanical narrator who takes budding engineers and their parents through the history, uses, and inner workings of our automated friends. Many thanks to Mark Hughes, our resident artist, for making Phil so darned cute.

Until his debut, Phil maybe followed on Twitter (philthinksbots) , where he will dispense all sorts of interesting tidbits.