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"Generally, the human race avoids doing anything radical until forced into it."
- Frederik Pohl

Juvenile  
  A robot designed to sneak around and spy on people.  

His attention fixed itself on the pack of juveniles. They were here, the earwig-like sleuths. Each juvenile was a foot and a half long. The species scuttled close to the ground - or up vertical surfaces - at ferocious speed, and they noticed everything. These juveniles were inactive. The wardens had unlocked the metal hulls and dug out the report tapes.
Technovelgy from The Man Who Japed, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Ace Books in 1956
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Here's another descriptive passage showing how people felt about juveniles:

"You were out late last night, Mr. Purcell. Did you have a good time?"

Lord, he cursed. A juvenile must have spotted him. "Not very." He wondered how much it had seen. If it tagged him early in the trip it might have followed the whole way...

Over the decades he had learned to endure the interminable interchange, the stuffy presence of his neighbors packed together in one room. And the whirr of the juveniles as they surrendered their tapes to the Committee representatives.

Take a look at the Halluc II, a dead ringer for the juveniles.

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