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Here's another version of this idea from Robots Don't Bleed (1950) by JW Grove:
She likes us to plug her work whenever we get the chance. And we don’t mind. We think we’re good, too.”
I was breathing heavily by now. For one thing I don’t like to be laughed at. Not even by talking rabbits. And for another my curiosity had grown almost ravenous. “All right,” I grunted. “If you are not an intelligent form of life from another world, what the blazes are you ?”
“Robots, of course,” chuckled the one called Clarence.
“H.B. robots,” added Claude. “Unlike the mass-produced article, we have distinct and amusing personalities of our own. At least, that’s what she tells the customers.”
I stopped being annoyed and started chuckling. “She does ?” I said. “Well I must say I think she’s right, whoever ‘she’ is.”
I genuinely meant it too. Getting the things to look like real rabbits was nothing, of course. Ordinary three-di, tactile-true photography could take care of that any day. But giving them personalities was something else again.
Compare to the porter televox robot from On Board the Martian Liner by Miles J. Breuer, basic robot personality from Simultaneous Worlds (1938) by Nat Schachner and the robot cab driver from A Present for Pat (1952) by Philip K. Dick. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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