CATEGORIES Sci-Fi, Cinematical  We here at Cinematical are
obviously all about movies, but every now and then we come
across a story that's not movie-related in the traditional sense
but that we'd still love to share with you all the same. This is
one of those stories.  Lyndon Baty is a high school freshman in
Knox City, Texas. Unlike his cohorts, however, Lyndon's severely
compromised immune system means that going to school could
literally kill him. Yet every day, Lyndon shows up to school,
going from class to class, test to test, with everyone else his
age. So how does he do it?  Lyndon Baty is a robot.  OK, so he's
not completely a robot. Baty is flesh, blood and bone like you
and me, but like Batty in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner,'
technology has allowed him to be more human than human [via The
Singularity Hub]: He uses a chrome and steel surrogate to pilot
around the hallways of his high school. The robot, a 4-foot-tall
mobile telepresence system built by Vgo Communications, is
equipped with a webcam an