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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Robot Gardener | ||
| An autonomous gardening robot, taking care of plants in parks or fields. |
Someone (or something) has to do those jobs that modern people find tedious - like taking care of plants.
| A polished robot
gardner crawled here and there,
weeding and plucking and gathering waste debris in its disposal slot.
 (Robot gardener from 'War Veteran' by Philip K. Dick)
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| Technovelgy from War Veteran,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1955 Additional resources -
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This appears later in the story:
To his right a robot gardener worked over the same patch of grass again and again, its metallic eye-lenses intently fastened on the wizened, hunched-over figure of the old man.
Dick also calls robots "tinmen" in the story:
Compare to the automatic cultivators from Piracy Preferred (1930) by John W. Campbell, the conscious farm machines from The Hidden Colony (1935) by Otfrid von Hanstein, the robot farmer from The Turning Wheel (1954) by Philip K. Dick, the field minder from Who Can Replace A Man (1963) by Brian Aldiss, the Robomule from Bill the Galactic Hero (1965) by Harry Harrison, the robot crab from Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson and the agricultural robot pest controller from Runaway (1985) by Michael Crichton.
David Unger sat moodily on his park bench...
The old man hobbled sullenly
after the smoothly-gliding robot. "I
thought all you tinmen were used
up in the Europa battle of '88," he
complained.
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