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| Robot Skin Covering | ||
| Realistic covering for the bodies of robots. |
An early description of realistic skin for robots.
| The marvelous mechanisms were housed in a body like a Greek god’s, the covering of which was made from an elastic, tinted material that had all the feel and appearance of human flesh and epidermis. The electric-eye lenses looked like human optics and moved in their sockets in a most lifelike manner. There was a wig of curly brown hair, as well as eyelashes and brows. |
| Technovelgy from Rex,
by Harl Vincent. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1934 Additional resources -
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Compare to the sensitive radar mesentery skin from This Immortal (1966) by Roger Zelazny.
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