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by Ray Cummings

From somewhere out of Time come a swarm of Robots who inflict on New York the awful vengeance of the diabolical cripple Tugh.

('The Exile of Time' by Ray Cummings)

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Robotic Hand Has Sensitive Fingertips
   Latest version of the Southampton robotic hand is very sensitive indeed.

Tactile 'Display' For Fingertips
   Can your fingers 'see' at a distance? This flexible display could make tele-feeling transfer systems possible.

Digger Finger: Super-Sensitive Robot Fingers Predicted In 1931
   'Migul's fingers with the extended filaments were feeling it... What an amazing development of science.' - Ray Cummings, 1931.

BioTac Robot's Finger More Sensitive Than Yours
   'We have at last found a way to link computer circuitry with synthetic flesh...'

Artificial 'Hairs' To Enhance Senses Of Robots
   'Migul had extended from each of the fingertips an inch-long filament of wire...' - Ray Cummings, 1931.

Safe Street Rebel Autonomous Vehicle Luddites And Schachner's 1931 Robot-Deranger
   'Then the spreading beam of the deranging ray struck them, and they stood an instant transfixed...' - Schachner/Zagat, 1931

Finger Sensors For Robot Hands
   'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931.

PaXini Supersensitive Robot Fingers
   'My fingers are not that sensitive...' - Ray Cummings, 1931.

Tactile Skin Supplier Map
   'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931.

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