This is a book that addresses the relationship between nature and culture. This is also a book that raises the increasingly blurred boundary between the biological and the artificial. Through its manifestation in different media, from literature to video games, from comics to television fiction, this robot companion, inhuman but perhaps all too human, is sought to reflect the fears and hopes of each era, the doubts that human beings have left behind in all their creations, from art to robotics. Of Slaves and Robots and Slaves: Transmedia Landscapes provides a multidisciplinary look at the genealogy and the different scenarios in which the relationship between human beings and their technology has been imagined, the different forms that the situation of interdependence that is generated between men and women and their robots has adopted in fiction. This is, in short, a book about the souls of people and the souls of objects, about the dilemmas of the second creation and how it is intended to shed light on the great questions of humanity, a book about human beings’ dreams of transcendence and the finitude of their mortal nature, about the transfer of a series of desires to the body of machines and about the way in which this mechanical double returns to us images of emancipation or slavery, of utopian futures on tireless robotic shoulders or of dystopian tomorrows under the steel heel of the cold rationality of machines.