Wednesday, 23 March 2011

fig 39: Buddybot, Centaurus Region


Many robots were built with no purpose other than companionship in mind, like this buddybot created to keep lonely children company on the travelling mining colonies of the Centaurus region. Unfortunately children would grow out of their robotic playmates and would often leave them behind when the colony moved on to a new world; it was not unusual for such robots to spend centuries wandering through the wilderness looking for somebody to play with.

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