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![]() When fighting in space, it is essential to close off damaged parts of a space suit to save the rest of the body.
Here's what it was like to "put the suit on:"
Compare to the repair robots from The Well-Oiled Machine (1950) by H.B. Fyfe, automated apartment maintenance from Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick,
the service drones from The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979) by James P. Hogan,
the Christmas Bush Motile Robot from Rocheworld (1985) by Robert Forward,
the maritime robots from Mare Nostrum (2022) by Bruce Sterling and the
maintenance drone (holon) from The Mountain in the Sea (2022) by Ray Naylor.
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