The Body in Future

"Alpha, a female robot of great pulchritude, amazed the British public in the 1930s with such feats as rising from her chair and answering questions put to her by spectators. There was some speculation that Alpha was bugged, and that the questions were actually answered off stage via a remote microphone. Alpha weighed two tons and was said to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day to keep her weight down."
Note that in the Pathe film Alpha answers that she weighs one ton, clearly an answer designed to impress.