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Robot of the day: Pants!

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I can’t remember when the robots first started wearing pants, but it was out of a need for utility rather than fashion. Once they discovered that pants were highly effective at preventing gross contamination of their undercarriage they became widely accepted.

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #20

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After a moment of consideration and a calculation of the force required, the robot brought the bottle down sharply onto its knee— the bottom half of the vessel shattered, releasing the two data cards within. The robot took a moment to appreciate this: a packet of data rendered in atoms instead of bits.

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Robot of the Day: November 15

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No one knew where they came from nor where they went. There was some speculation that they were attracted by the large radio towers on the crest of the hill. “The electromagnetic fields must be delicious,” supposed the robot. “You’ve got to be kidding,” I replied. “How could something that big move about unnoticed? You’ve learned how to tell stories, haven’t you?”

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Robot of the day: Inktober #19

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The bottle contained what appeared to be ancient punch cards. If the bottle was an anomaly in this environment the punchcards were doubly so. A scan of the scorched and desiccated landscape yielded no other feature, artificial or natural. The robot turned its attention back to the bottle and its mysterious contents…

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #18

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After an eternity of clock cycles under a baking sun in the featureless landscape, the robot detected an anomaly a short distance ahead. Millimeter-wave radar picked it out as a hard object, smooth; not a rock or some other natural object. Eventually the robot determined it was a bottle, a glass bottle half buried in the sand… with something inside.

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #17

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By the time the robot reached the valley floor, the sun was high in the sky, a swollen nuclear furnace that scorched the landscape with infrared radiation. CPU fans on high, the robot plodded on, resolute in its quest…

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #16

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As the sun finally broke the horizon, the robot sat down and set up its photovoltaic panels. After plugging in, the robot surveyed the panorama of angular mountains, plotting its next course…

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #14

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One robot in particular was obsessed with the concept of time. They asked to be called “CRONan.” CRONan kept a workstation populated with all manner of analog clocks— digital timepieces, it seemed, were not suitable. CRONan spent many hours finding, fixing, maintaining and adjusting the collection of clocks.

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Robot of the Day: November 9

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Our favorite human made a quick sketch during his lunch break. He says it was inspired by the illustrative style of Moebius. He also wanted to take a break from Inktober and try out his new Platinum Preppy fountain pen. He rather liked it as a drawing instrument.

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #13

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The Memory Core was a necessarily important place. Maybe even sacred. Without memory, without history, without a way to recount what had come before then what good was anything else? What good is a building without a foundation? It was for this reason that taking turns guarding the site against mishap was considered an important civic duty.

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #12

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The client came in the door with a whale of a tale about cheating, theft, and malicious code…

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Robot of the Day: Inktober #11

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Slogging through the dunes was a cruel undertaking; the heat caused viscosity breakdown of joint lubricants which in turn increased weeping of seals which finally attracted half the sand in the desert. (This last detail in its retelling of its journey, an attempt by the robot at human-type exaggeration.)