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What’s Out There?
Edward Ingram visits Roboworld.
There was once a mad scientist who built robots. These robots were as clever as human beings. They could play cricket, do sums, drive cars, wash dishes; there wasn’t anything that a human could do which the robots could not. Naturally, the mad scientist equipped them with robot eyes and robot ears and other robot sense organs (for, if they could not see, hear, touch, and so on, how could they be expected to act intelligently?). And so it was that, of the thousands of the machines that were built, each was as clever and sentient an individual as you or me.
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