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"Retire? Yeah, I want to die with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
- Alfred Bester
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| Silencer-Padding | ||
| Robots need to have special padding on the bottoms of their lower limbs, so they don't clank as they walk. |
Robert F-R badly needed some maintenance work.
| Robert lowered his jaw to communicate the mechanical equivalent of a smile. "I may be the only free robot in existence, but I still have certain basic needs. Lubricant for instance, a power pile reactivation, and," he said bringing his foot up to indicate his silencer-padding, "I even need soles." |
| From Robot Unwanted,
by Daniel Keyes. Published by Other Worlds in 1952 Additional resources -
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As I recall, the robotic horse in A Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff had special retractable rubber hooves for silent running!
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