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![]() In this future, autonomous robots need to find work; how else can you afford spare parts, not to mention upgrades?
This newspaper knew its readers; there were even comics for robots:
Compare to the repair robots from The Well-Oiled Machine (1950) by H.B. Fyfe,
Self-Maintaining Circuit Monitoring and Repair from Gramp and his Dog (1952) by Frank Quattrocchi, the
self-repairing robot from Accidental Flight (1952) by W.F. Wallace, the
service drones from The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979) by James P. Hogan and the repair drone from Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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