Description
Undercover Robot is a book about a robot who spends a year pretending to be a human in order to win a prize. Dotty faces a lot of challenges, such as fitting in with humans, dealing with ethical dilemmas, and staying hidden. The book ends with Dotty trying to figure out how to be a human again.
Watch out, Brussells Academy - this robot will outwit you all!If super-high-tech android Dotty can spend an entire year masquerading as a twelve-year-old schoolgirl, she could win a multi-million-pound prize that will enable her creators to continue their ground-breaking work in the development of AI. Easy-peasy, right? As Dotty navigates the social expectations of Year 7 she gets into a series of hilarious scrapes, and encounters numerous ethical dilemmas both at school and at home. Then a boy in her class discovers there's a reward for outing the robot, and becomes intent on proving that Dotty is not who - or what - she says she is. To prevent herself from being discovered, Dotty needs to put into practice everything she has learned about being human. But will it be enough...?