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| Robot Surgical Tools Hand | ||
| A specialized replacement for the hand of a robot. |
A handy device for converting a general-purpose robot into a robot able to excercise very specific skills.
| ...the robot unscrewed a metal plate from its own great chest, then unscrewed its own right hand at the wrist, reached into the hole revealed in its chest, withdrew a wrist with a set of surgical tools instead of fingers, screwed the strange new hand into place on its right arm, and approached the table...
 (The robot surgical tools hand from 'Winged Planet' by Adam Chase)) The robot-surgeon hadn’t moved. Appai-ently it had been listening to them. Now, when there w'as a pause in their conversation, the surgical hand swept down toward Joyce’s bare breast. “Wait!” Ann cried... The surgical hand lifted slowly and Ann thought it would plunge downward into Joyce’s breast. But the metal hand came down slowly and went to the chest-plate. Soon the normal five-fingered metal hand had replaced the surgical hand. The robot used it to unfasten the straps which held Joyce. The surgical hand remained poised in midair. |
| Technovelgy from Winged Planet,
by Adam Chase. Published by Amazing Stories in 1957 Additional resources -
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Compare directly to the robot surgeon-hand from War Veteran (1955) by Philip K. Dick.
See also the mechanical hand from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD (1929) by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins),
microhands from Microhands (Микроруки) (1931) by Boris Zhitkov,
iron fingers from The Death's Head Meteor (1931) by Neil R. Jones,
robot hands from The Iron World (1937) by Otis Adelbert Kline,
waldoes from Waldo (1942) by Robert Heinlein,
robotic hand from The Door Into Summer (1956) by Robert Heinlein,
interchangeable hands from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick,
surgical hand from Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964) by Philip K. Dick and
office hand from The Human Blend (2010) by Alan Dean Foster.
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