Thirteen-year-old Ricky Sheppard really wants to get into robotics--something he has a definite talent for--and follow in the footsteps of his father, a professor and engineer at the University of Pittsburgh. He also has a crush on Suzanne Harrington, the only child of the extremely wealthy industrialist Bennett Harrington, but she doesn't care if he exists. Then they both find themselves roboticized, and must quickly find their way and their destiny...