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"If I can make you see the world the way I see it, then you will automatically think the way I think."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Radar Mesentery | ||
| A thick covering that supports a network of sensors. |
This term refers to the "skin" of a wrestling robot named "Rolem" and is an intriguing way for a machine to sense its opponents.
| It doesn't really "see" its opponent with those eye-things it has; it's all sheathed about with piezo-electric radar mesentery, and it "watches " from all its surfaces. |
| Technovelgy from This Immortal,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace Science Fiction in 1965 Additional resources -
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As a skin covering for a robot, compare to robot skin covering from Rex (1934) by Harl Vincent and Synthetic Rubberoid Skin from One For The Robot - Two For The Same... (1950) by Rog Philips.
Compare also to the Ixian sight mask from Frank Herbert's 1976 novel Children of Dune.
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