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When the explorers reach the interior of Rama, and the vast structure approaches the Sun, a vast number of biological robots - biots - perform various functions.
As far as I know, Clarke coined the word "biot."
Read a lot more details about biots in the article for spider tripod robots, taken from the same novel. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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