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| Tractor-Mounted Robot | ||
| A repair robot on tractor treads. |
| They watched as a tractor-mounted robot disconnected a fuel pipe from the drive, then rolled back.
 (Tractor-Mounted Robot from 'One Face' (1967) by Larry Niven) A moment later a wash of smoky flame burst from the pipe. It changed color and intensity a dozen times within a few seconds, then died as abruptly as it had begun. The robot waited for the white heat to leave the pipe, then rolled forward to reconnect it. |
| Technovelgy from One Face,
by Larry Niven. Published by Galaxy in 1965 Additional resources -
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