Mika is a research project creation that resulted from a collaboration between Hansen Robotics and Polish rum company Dictador.
As far as I know, the first use of the phrase robot-boss appears in Women's World (1939) by David C. Cooke:
The men filled bag after bag with coal, and carried them close to the mouth of the adit near the mouth of a deserted shaft. John was one of the men who were carrying the heavy bags back through the tunnel, and he slipped away on one trip while the robot-boss was busy at the lip of the new lode instructing and egging the men on to greater speed...
Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
Origin F1 Humanoid Robot's Facial Skin
'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.' - Rog Philips, 1950.
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Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
Elon Musk Wants Data Centers In Space
'Internally it’s made up of millions of components, but the most important ones are the thinking and memory parts of the Mind proper.'
Origin F1 Humanoid Robot's Facial Skin
'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.'