Dr. Thomas Xavier Light was the first to create a convincing, life-like humanoid robot. Using these plans, he built himself a small lab assistant which he named Rock, and a housekeeping robot named Roll. Dr. Light taught his skills to his partner and assistant, Dr. Wily, and the two used this breakthrough to create six Master Robots, designed to oversee non-intelligent robots in tasks too dangerous or tedious for humans. All was going well until Dr. Wily mysteriously reprogrammed the new robots and took off with them. The next thing anyone knew, he was using the stolen robots in a massive takeover of the entire planet. Rock, having resisted the reprogramming, volunteered to go after Wily. He was thus converted by Dr. Light into the warrior robot named Mega Man. For more information on this extensive series: http://www.mmhp.net/