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Robot librarians slowly taking over

“The Simpsons” certainly didn’t invent robots, and society has been hard at work trying to create these mechanical entities. Sometimes, this leads to useful inventions, but other times, it leads to some truly haunting robots getting put out into the world. In “Lisa’s Wedding,” the robots featured here — not counting the tin men seen toward the beginning — include a librarian whose face catches fire after crying.