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"The writing is clicking away in my head and piling up, and unless I get it on paper somehow it's going to create uncomfortable pressure in my skull."
- Isaac Asimov

Teddy  
  A very intelligent and highly mobile robotic teddy bear.  

Director Stanley Kubrick became fascinated with the story from which Teddy is taken - eventually, he gave the project to Steven Spielberg. It was finally filmed as A.I..

"Come down here, Teddy!"

She stood impassively, watching the little furry figure as it climbed down from step to step on its stubby limbs. When it reached the bottom, she picked it up and carried it into the living room. It lay unmoving in her arms, staring up at her. She could feel just the slightest vibration from its motor.

"Stand there, Teddy. I want to talk to you." She set him down on a tabletop, and he stood as she requested, arms set forward and open in the eternal gesture of embrace.

"Teddy, did David tell you to tell me he had gone into the garden?"

The circuits of the bear's brain were too simple for artifice. "Yes, Mummy."

Technovelgy from Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss.
Published by Harper's Bazaar in 1969
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