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| Nubot | ||
| An android that directly replaces a human at their job. |
| At Fifty-Ninth Street, I followed the stairs underground and found a nubot sitting inside the clerk's booth. The first subway bots were designed with squares and rectangles. They had blinking lights for eyes and resembled wind-up toys. But the development of SynSkin had been a breakthrough for bot appearance. The nubots looked human; their tongues moved when they talked, their eyes blinked, and their chests moved as if they were breathing. Like all nubots, the clerk in the booth was controlled by a reactive intelligence program that gave it the ability to learn from its experiences and change its behavior. |
| Technovelgy from Spark,
by John Twelve Hawks. Published by Knopf in 2014 Additional resources -
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'...a misshapen, many-tentacled thing about twice the size of a man.'
