In the 1985 film "Rocky IV", protagonist Rocky Balboa buys his brother-in-law (Paulie) a robot for his birthday. But the robot's movie role as a seductively-voiced beer-fetcher is a far stretch from its original application. The robot was originally developed as a treatment for autistic children! When the founder of International Robotics, Robert Doornick, appeared on American talk-show to discuss the possibility of using a robot to help autistic children improve their communication skills, Doornick's creation caught the interest of actor and screenwriter, Sylvester Stallone. Stallone, who has an autistic son, was so impressed by the robot that he wrote it into his movie's script.
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