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It feels safe in the underground bunker, covered by many yards of dirt and gravel. Until the tiny robot earthworms come.
Elsewhere they are referred to as "plastic spaghetti."
In their operation, these robot earthworms remind me of these real-life Self-Replicating Modular Robots (really an organized swarm of segments - "pivoted and smoothly finished segments"):
(Self-Replicating Modular Robots) See also the organic mining worm from Larry Niven's 1968 book A Gift From Earth. Compare to the metal worms from Vandals from the Moon (1928) by Marius, the mining worm robot from Love Among the Robots (1946) by Emmett McDowell, the robot snake from Bait for the Tiger (1952) by Lee Chaytor, the mechanical cobra from Lord of Light (1967) by Roger Zelazny, the digger worm from With Friends Like These (1985) by Connie Willis and the robot snake spy from Mariposa (2009) by Greg Bear. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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