ART OF DAVID PAUL POWERS by JasonSrebnick - Flipbook - Page 188
Bots
Bots (short for robots of course) are scattered throughout the story.
There are various types, most having a specific purpose. A prefix
before the word “Bot” indicating what that purpose is. For example,
a vidBot is a “video robot” that might display something on a large
screen where a head or torso would otherwise be.
Then there are the “soldierDrones” of the Ninth Legion that are, like
the other military machinery in the Ninth Legion, remote controlled
by Ninth Legion youth from the safety of faraway bases. I suppose,
technically, they are in fact not Bots, or are a hybrid of sorts, in that
they have someone controlling them.
A true Bot on the other hand thinks, and acts independently, based
on their own internal artificial intelligence programming.
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