<P> Marvin , the Paranoid Robot , is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams . Marvin is the ship 's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold . Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation 's GPP ( Genuine People Personalities ) technology , Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom , in part because he has a `` brain the size of a planet '' which he is seldom , if ever , given the chance to use . Indeed , the true horror of Marvin 's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect . Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human , ( or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress ) though this is , if anything , a vast underestimation . When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer , Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet 's military strategy , solve `` all of the major mathematical , physical , chemical , biological , sociological , philosophical , etymological , meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except his own , three times over , '' and compose a number of lullabies . </P>
<P> Marvin , the Paranoid Robot , is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams . Marvin is the ship 's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold . Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation 's GPP ( Genuine People Personalities ) technology , Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom , in part because he has a `` brain the size of a planet '' which he is seldom , if ever , given the chance to use . Indeed , the true horror of Marvin 's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect . Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human , ( or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress ) though this is , if anything , a vast underestimation . When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer , Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet 's military strategy , solve `` all of the major mathematical , physical , chemical , biological , sociological , philosophical , etymological , meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except his own , three times over , '' and compose a number of lullabies . </P>
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Marvin , the Paranoid Robot
Marvin , the Paranoid Robot