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| Search-Bug An exploratory robot. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Rocket Tug The equivalent of a tug boat for space ships. (From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Repulsor Screen Diverts troublesome asteroids. (From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Plani-Glass Transparent and light and has the tensile strength of steel! (From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Poldek Ability to sense life. (From The Saga of Pelican West [1937] by Eric Frank Russell) |
| Photo-Electric Mosaic A means of capturing astronomical images. (From Beyond Which Limits [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Mercy Gas Breathe it and die. (From The Saga of Pelican West [1937] by Eric Frank Russell) |
| Automatic Factory Manufacturing facility that functions entirely autonomously. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Automatic Ore Cart An autonomous truck for raw ore processing. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Magnetic Anchor A means of affixing an anchor point on a spacecraft hull. (From Dead Star Station [1933] by Jack Williamson) |
| Pizzled (Semantic Garble) Use of nonsensical statements to deliberately confuse an artificial intelligence. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| No Human Programmers The idea that computers are too complicated and too important to be programmed by human beings. (From Millennium [1983] by John Varley) |
| Domed Mapviewer Illuminated hemispherical map display. (From Dorsai! [1960] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
| Synthetic Milk Milk made without cows. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Robot Factory Representative An ambulatory agent of an automatic factory. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Raw Material-Tropic Moves towards desirable raw materials. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Autonomous Truck A truck that drives itself and unloads itself. (From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Confinement Asteroid A place where asteroid miner's babies stay to experience some needed gravity. (From At the Bottom of a Hole [1966] by Larry Niven) |
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