Robots : Marvin the Paranoid Android
Marvin the Paranoid Android So I have begun to watch the original BBC television series for my Fun Sunday Viewing. I always got a kick of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology ... especially Marvin & Eddie the Ship Board Computer ! Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams . Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold . Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom , in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Instead, the crew request him merely to carry out mundane jobs such as "opening the door". Indeed, the true h...