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| Luggage Robot | ||
| Perfect helper at robotic hotels. |
| "I am here to take your luggage - Order me and I'll help you!"
This was sung in a rich contralto voice to the accompaniment of a 200 piece brass band; a standard recording of all the Robotnik hotels. I hated it. I kicked the robot back, it was pressing close to our ankles, and pointed to the robocab. "Luggage. There. Five pieces. Fetch." It hummed away and plunged eager tentacles into the cab. We entered the hotel. "Don't we have four pieces luggage?" Vaska asked, frowning those beetling eyebrows in thought. "You're right, I must have miscounted." The luggage robot caught up and passed us, with our suitcases and the back seat torn out of the cab. "We have five now." |
| Technovelgy from The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Pyramid in 1970 Additional resources -
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Compare to the doglike robotic luggage carrier autoporter from John Brunner's 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider.
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