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"I went back to science fiction to try a few experiments …and my first experiment was a disaster…"
- Alfred Bester
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| Dancing Robot | ||
| A humanoid robot able to perform dance moves. |
| A robot dancing uses all the motions that a robot could ever use in a job. A camera-device to make a robot dance and dance again is good enough to make a robot do anything an Instigator can do and lots more. |
| Technovelgy from The Instigators,
by Raymond E. Banks. Published by Science Fiction Stories in 1956 Additional resources -
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