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"It's hard to tell stories about critters that are not human. John W. Campbell tried it, in "Twilight," and everybody says it's a wonderful story, and nobody ever reads it twice."
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Silencer-Padding | ||
| Robots need to have special padding on the bottoms of their lower limbs, so they don't clank as they walk. |
Robert F-R badly needed some maintenance work.
| Robert lowered his jaw to communicate the mechanical equivalent of a smile. "I may be the only free robot in existence, but I still have certain basic needs. Lubricant for instance, a power pile reactivation, and," he said bringing his foot up to indicate his silencer-padding, "I even need soles." |
| From Robot Unwanted,
by Daniel Keyes. Published by Other Worlds in 1952 Additional resources -
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Compare to the rubber soled feet from Reason (1941) by Isaac Asimov and the rubber hoof from The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969) by Christopher Stasheff.
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