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Carer-Type Robot A general-purpose robot designed to help care for humans.
(From The Robot [2024] by Lavie Tidhar) |
Human-Passing A robot that is so convincingly human that most people cannot tell.
(From The Robot [2024] by Lavie Tidhar) |
Terrorartist An individual that creates anarchic technology.
(From The Robot [2024] by Lavie Tidhar) |
Robotic Undersea Turtle A sea-going robot that resembles a turtle.
(From Epilogue [1962] by Poul Anderson) |
Culture Mind A highly advanced, space-borne entirely autonomous intelligence.
(From Consider Phlebas [1987] by Iain M Banks) |
Colloid Dielectric A non-living receptacle for a human mind.
(From One For The Robot - Two For The Same... [1950] by Rog Philips) |
Synthetic Rubberoid Skin An artful recreation of a human face, indistinguishable from the original.
(From One For The Robot - Two For The Same... [1950] by Rog Philips) |
Balloon Tree Also called the "Migratory Tree", it uses a gas-filled bladder to ascend into the sky.
(From The Balloon Tree [1883] by Edward Page Mitchell) |
Index Rating Understanding what you should do (or not do) is part of the test.
(From Gemini Cavendish [1971] by Gordon Eklund) |
Smart Suit An autonomous exoskeleton.
(From Descendant [1987] by Iain M Banks) |
Earth-Brain The intelligence center of the living Earth!
(From The Earth-Brain [1932] by Edmond Hamilton) |
AI Declares Godhood An artificial machine intelligence declares itself to be God, and demands worship from humans.
(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
Robox
(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
Spherical Display An arbitrarily large display that is a perfect sphere.
(From Surface Detail [2010] by Iain M Banks) |
Flying Wire Barbed wire that seeks to expand to its remembered size and extent.
(From Make Room! Make Room! [1966] by Harry Harrison) |
Very Large Black Boxes Creating a computer system that solves problems without specific programming.
(From Summa Technologiae [1964] by Stanislaw Lem) |
Synthetic Eggshell
(From Jurassic Park [1990] by Michael Crichton) |
Supercalculator Connecting all the computing machines of the universe!
(From Answer [1954] by Frederic Brown) |
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