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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
- Larry Niven
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| Robot Gardener | ||
| An autonomous gardening robot, taking care of plants in parks or fields. |
Someone (or something) has to do those jobs that modern people find tedious - like taking care of plants.
| David Unger sat moodily on his park bench...
To his right a robot gardener worked over the same patch of grass again and again, its metallic eye-lenses intently fastened on the wizened, hunched-over figure of the old man. |
| From War Veteran,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1955 Additional resources -
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For similar ideas, take a look at the Robot Crab, a gardening robot from Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer. For visual appeal, check out the Agricultural Robot Pest Controller from Michael Crichton's 1985 film Runaway.
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