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Martian Canal Ice Open water ice on the fourth planet.
(From Red Planet [1949] by Robert Heinlein) |
Monowheel A single-wheeled police car.
(From Firewater [1952] by William Tenn) |
Prime Command A universal order or principle carried out by every robotic device.
(From Robots Are Nice? [1957] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
Robocide Deliberate destruction of robots.
(From Robots Are Nice? [1957] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
Robus A robotic bus.
(From Terror in the Stars [1955] by John A. Sentry) |
Robobus An autonomous vehicle for picking up some number of passengers.
(From Robots Are Nice? [1957] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
Facial Recognition A device that scans a person, compares to a database, and brings out more stored information.
(From Rogue Psi [1962] by James Schmitz) |
Ruum Spherical Robot An autonomous spherical robot, possibly liquid metal, self-energizing, of alien design; a collector.
(From The Ruum [1953] by Arthur Porges) |
Language Net Endows the user with the ability to understand any language.
(From The Sorceror Pharesm [1966] by Gerald Vance) |
Liquid Metal Telescope (Solid) A large LMT made solid.
(From The Infinite Vision [1926] by Charles C. Winn) |
Boxing Robot Robots that fight in exhibitions, in the ring, for spectators.
(From Steel [1956] by Richard Matheson) |
Electric-Powered Caterpillar Shovels Mining equipment powered by electricity.
(From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
Ideophore A device that quickly and (almost?) painlessly transfers knowledge from one brain to another.
(From The Fortress of Utopia [1939] by Jack Williamson) |
Spaceplane A craft able to land on Earth and take off directly for space.
(From Zarnak [1937] by Max Plaisted) |
Beer Robot A robot prepared and filled with draft beer.
(From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
Lawyer Robot An autonomous, robotic lawyer.
(From How-2 [1954] by Clifford Simak) |
Automaton Judge An entirely artificial, mechanical judge for the courtroom.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
Automaton Birds Mechanical fowl sing sweetly.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
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