Cormac Wallace
Technically speaking, Cormac Wallace is the narrator of the story even though most of the narrative is actually conveyed through other characters. Don’t worry, read the book and you’ll figure it out. Anyway, Wallace is a “Bright Boy” which is something else easily figured out, but for the sake of simplicity just call him a human soldier in the fight against the dreaded robot army. He finds a nifty cube that is actually a record of the entire war and, okay, yeah: that’s how he is the narrator who doesn’t really do much narrating.
Mathilda Perez
For instance, the cube contains a narrative of her account in the story by Mathilda Perez. Mathilda is the young daughter of Rep. Laura Perez, who introduced the Robot Defense Act which stimulated a spike in robot attacks. As in the case of Mathilda, who was attacked by Baby-Comes-Alive doll in a way it is safe to assume the manufacturers had not intended. Of course, considering the stage of product regulation at time this story takes place, that cannot be completely confirmed.
Takeo Nomura
Take the state of Japanese sexbots, for instance. Totally unregulated, it seems, and this led to Takeo Nomura’s “robot wife” attacking him. This sad, strange little tale is initially conveyed by Ryu Aoki, an electronics repairman. His portrait of Mr. Nomura is less than heroic, but by the end Cormac informs the reader that the old man will eventually be recognized as “one of the greatest technical minds of his generation.”
Professor Nicholas Wasserman
Blame on the Prof. Wasserman is the brilliant mind that creates the most advanced artificial intelligence known to man. And, as is usually the case, his attempt to prove his own intelligence undoes himself. This is the guy who unleashes the robot apocalypse upon humanity. Though, admittedly, not on purpose and in a secondhand sort of way.
Archos
Technically speaking, it is Archos that is really responsible for unleashing the apocalypse. But keep in mind that Archos was created by the severely overreaching Wasserman. The relationship between man and machine gets a little freakishly Freudian as Archos kills Wasserman in a sort of son kills father kind of way. Immediately pronouncing himself God, Archos sets to the task at hand: wiping out an entire species who smartest member created a machine smarter than him.
