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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Supervisor Robot | ||
| A robot that watches over and gives orders to other robots. |
| SEVERAL dark usuform robots were smoothing the sand on this beach under the direction of a blue humanoid superviser. Watching them idly, Robert estimated that it must be ten years since he had seen another human face to face. His parents were dim memories. He got along very well, however, with robots to serve him or to obtain occasional information from the automatic scanners of the city library that had long ago been equipped to serve such a purpose. |
| Technovelgy from Manners of the Age,
by H.B. Fyfe. Published by Galaxy in 1952 Additional resources -
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Compare to the multiple robot team from Catch That Rabbit (1944) by Isaac Asimov.
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