Torpedo Head

"Torpedo Head" is a title based upon conjecture.

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Torpedo Head
Species:	Robot
Affiliated with:	Robot Banks
Appearance:	Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"]

"Torpedo Head", or "Jet Engine Heade", was one of the operators at the dysfunctional call centre of a firm who employed only robots. Torpedo Head was a large robot with a circulat dark-blue body, two mechanical arms, and, as the name implied, an elongated head resembling the fuselage of a jet engine or torpedo, mounted on an extremely narrow steel neck, and whose tip (nose or mouth) glowed orange when Torpedo Head spoke into a phone receiver. (TV: Robots Ad ^[+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

A side view of Torpedo Head and the unseen Pod Robot.

This puppet was one of seven original robot designs supplied to the production of the Robots Ad ^[+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"] by Studio Kite. The behind-the-scenes featurette posted on Facebook by Canberra Daleks & Robots gave a good look at the prop under natural lighting, dubbing it "Torpedo Head" in a caption. Sharing its cubicle was the Pod Robot, who is blocked out of sight in the final cut of the short.

The featurette also included a close-up of an in-universe prop which was not visible in the final cut, a whiteboard giving a partial list of the call centre's employees. One of the robots listed thereon was "Jet Engine Head", evidently an alternative moniker for Torpedo Head. The comical "scoreboard" reported that it had received 15 calls, resolving only two and leaving 13 unsolved, also racking up 6 "fatalities" in the process.

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  The operators scoreborad identifying the character as "Jet Engine Head".