No robots were on duty there and no serious attempt had been made at restoration.
Any moment now, therobots would begin their mindless worship.
Several hundred robots huddled there on their perches, drinks in hand, ready to go into their act.
In the penthouse below he saw half a dozen robots moving about speedily, working.
Robots fall in love at first sight," he announced, "and blow an audio tube!
Two robots guarded the entrance, stiff and towering and without movement, the early light glistening along their jointed bodies.
This time the two robots flanking the doorway did not leave their posts.
Two robots took up positions on the ramp to discourage kibitzers, and after an hour or so in which nothing more happened, the rest of the camp returned pretty much to normal.
Lo-as-ro, fired by the thought of establishing contact with people like himself, had borrowed spaceships manned by robots and crossed the void to Earth.
Then the robots will take charge and those who oppose them will be slain.
Maybe I can use it on these robots Wetzel mentioned!
Far ahead, he knew, other rat robots were stationed, watching and waiting, ready to deactivate the Nipe's detection devices at just the right moment.
Around him, six rat-like remote-control robots moved with him, shifting their pattern constantly as they patrolled his moving figure.
If he went out through an open air exit, we could have him followed by bird-robots but--" He shrugged wryly.
We have over seven hundred of these remote-controlled robots hidden in strategic spots in those tunnels now, but it took time to get everything set up this way.
They'll fight other robots too, no doubt, but the property of invisibility will be an invincible weapon.
Alan saw other robots converging on him from various points in the room.
The robots released Alan, who rubbed his arms ruefully.
Dodeth turned and yelled to one of the patrol robots that was standing nearby.
That's why the robots reported they couldn't find any animal of that description in the vicinity.
And when they reached the incline that led up to the ridge, one of the armed patrol robots who had been in the lead took a look over the ridge and then scuttled back to Dodeth.
When they finally came to a tunnel labeled Robots and Passengers Only, Ardan rolled into it and revved his wheels up to high speed, shooting down the tunnelway at a much higher velocity than Dodeth could possibly have run.
Tell the patrol robots to spread out, and tell them I want all the movie shots we can get.
Within minutes, more and more of the pesticide robots were swarming towards and into the clearing.
Arvam, go down and tell the pesticide robots that there is no danger to us.
He did not at all feel like making small talk with Wygor, and he had nothing as yet to say to Ardan or the patrol robots who were rolling along with the armored car.
While the Eldest Keeper talked in low tones with his colleagues, Dodeth stalked over to one of the pesticide robots who was prowling nearby.
Then why don't the robots fire as they've been told?
We have already ordered a patrol column of two hundred fully-armed pesticide robots to destroy the animals.
They were all expert woodsmen--Dodeth and Wygor by training and experience, and the robots by indoctrination.
Two hundred pesticide robots were ranged around the perimeter of the clearing, their weapons facing inward.
The tunnelway was crowded with passenger-carrying robots, and with robots alone, carrying out orders from their masters.
We have over seven hundred of these remote-control robots hidden in strategic spots throughout those tunnels now, and we can put more in whenever we want, but it took time to get everything set up this way.
The robot rat that he was following led him along a path that had been unobtrusively cleared of rubble by the robot rats over a period of months, but the robots weren't the only rats in the place.
Everyone else was out of the building, and the robots were taking over.
Soon the char-robots would be bustling into this very office.
Then we could set up many more discarded robots without risk.
He spent most of the night calculating where he could place tiny self-activators in the "obsolescent" robots that were to be donated by his plant.
But I really need some robots up and running by tomorrow night, Suneep.
Suneep had three of his assistants working on the first generation of mobile telepresence robots for the exterior, and had promised a prototype for that afternoon.
In time, Suneep and his gang would have a batch of telepresence robots up and running, and we'd move to them, get them wandering the queue area, interacting with curious guests.
It came to him with a great shock that not one of the robots had ever seen a living thing.
When the pile was finished, the robots felt the return of the pain and, having once begun, they continued to attempt to serve.
There were literally thousands of the robots now, come from all over the barren horizon.
One of the near robots came forward alone, moving, as Steffens now saw, on a number of short, incredibly strong and agile legs.
It had not occurred to Steffens until now that the robots expected the Makers to do so.
Robots moved outside the thing, little black bugs in the distance--moving around their birthplace.
A millenium passed, during which the robots began to move and to think for themselves.
The mass of the robots outside stood immobile, ageless among rock which was the same, hurting, hurting.
There were robots here in the midst of a radiation so lethal that nothing, nothing could live; robots on a dead planet, living in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
They came, wonderingly, and the ring of robots widened.
For when the robots were built, the Makers had done this: Along with the first successful robot brain, the Makers had realized the necessity of creating a machine which could never turn against them.
The building of imaginative robots was expressly forbidden.
Year after year, the robots came out in a slow, steady stream.
Ball came to join Steffens, staring at the robots through the clear plastic of his helmet with baffledly widened eyes.
Earthmen would have to come in ships to take the robots away.
Some of the less sophisticated robots might pick up some chance phrase of conversation and interpret it as an order if left on audio.
Though, matter of fact, I'm hanged if I ever did quite see why you senior-level robots get so worked up about your identities.
It was a delightful party, a credit to Ben, Betty and the finest built-in house robots the mind of Amalgamated could devise.
Selling isn't the only thing robots can't do, sugar.
Carefully, carefully, like an obstetrician supervising surgical robots at an unusually difficult birth, he watched the register until it rolled to rest against the notch that indicated the exactly crucial moment.
And he'd have robots to work for him and lots of food.
I know you're right, but my conscience won't let me vote for robotsin any form.
But those are robots--and the use of robots is against religion.
Our form of religion doesn't prohibit robots unless they are in the shape of a man.
Robots requiring neither rest nor food, but only lubricants and power; robots insensible alike to that bitter cold and to that noxious atmosphere.
For minutes a host of robots toiled mightily, then a portion of the shield bulged out and became a tube extending beyond the attacking layers of force; a tube from which there erupted a beam of violence incredible.
I doubt it--with so many robots around, they've probably got signals that we couldn't understand anyway.
Docchi settled into a long stride, avoiding the low-slung repair robots that seemed to be everywhere.
Robots are never used aboard, so the control is set in the bow antenna and the ship, of course, is insulated.
The robots were dispatched as soon as scanning failed to work.
Our robotsprobably have considerably better intellectual abilities--our cybernetic units, that is.
Maybe they're building practical-joke circuits into robots these days.
The movie producers had talked about hiring her as Frank's leading lady until they found out about a new line of female robots that had just gone on the market.
Bill, you know they don't build compulsory truth monitors into robots any more, and besides we don't know a thing about atomic electronics.
Frank Nineteen Fan Clubs, usually formed by lonely female robots against their employers' wishes, sprang up spontaneously through the East and Middle West.
The set of tools were kept handy for the servos to adjust themselves during stopovers was spread all over the floor along with lots of colored wire, cams, pawls, relays and all the other paraphernalia robots have inside them.
The big servo got off with only a light sentence for theft because the judge ruled that in the light of Scott's new findings robots came under human law and therefore no infraction of justice had been committed.
Back on Earth you never give robots a second thought but it's different living out in space.
And when Min suggested we turn the girl over to the Missing Robots Bureau, I reminded her the mech's identification had been filed off and it might take years to trace her.
Why, I've even known sub-robots who've fallen in love like us.
No two robots ever register the same on the meters.
Although physicists commonly express the phenomenon in such units as Gilberts, Maxwells and Oersteds, we robots know it to be our counterpart of human love.
He remembered once being favored with a televised view of Jack's favorite sport--a battle between companies of robots designed for the purpose, horribly reminiscent of human conflicts Robert had seen on historical films.
Robert, and flung down his racket for one of the white serving robots to retrieve.
And besides," she stormed on, "those robotsyou brought are painted the most repulsive colors!
He got along very well, however, with robotsto serve him or to obtain occasional information from the automatic scanners of the city library that had long ago been equipped to serve such a purpose.
I should have asked her what the colors of my robots had to do with it, he thought, and turned back to re-enter.
Several dark usuform robots were smoothing the sand on this beach under the direction of a blue humanoid supervisor.
Since none of his robotswas equipped with a thermometer, he had to draw the bath himself.
I follow the best diet advice myrobots could find in the city library.
The serving robots finished laying out the dishes and retired to posts along the wall.
He stood in the doorway of a small cottage of pale blue trimmed with yellow, watching his robots unload baggage.
Robert was aware that the decision involved few difficulties, considering the wealth of robots and other automatic machines.
My robots are digging you a little swimming hole," he told her.
How would you like to find robots trying to boss you around?
He started up, the measured treads of his own robots sounding reassuringly behind him.
Robots not admitted after dark," a mechanical voice informed him.
You know," Quill said, "robots aren't the only ones who can get confused watching their own brains go round.
Actually, the big robotics companies didn't want amateurs fooling around with robots; they'd much rather build the robots themselves and rent them out.
For three days the officers and men of the ship had worked as though they were the robots instead of their passenger--or cargo, depending on your point of view.
The morning before the robots walked, Johnny Malone, the Mayor's son, bounced out of bed with a burst of energy.
And then, just as alarm was beginning to stir all over the land, the robots came walking, all of the robotsfrom the grade schools, and the high schools, and the colleges.
All over the streets of the cities and the walks in the country the robots were entering houses.
The robots came out of the houses and went walking back to the schools.
One of the robotstaught them a new game, and after that took them to supper served in the school's cafeteria.
Reahlly, I'm sure the robots are doing a marvelous job.
The robots began to bring cots and to place them in the schoolroom, row on row.
All over the country, all over the towns, the robots walked to tell the people that the children would not be home from school, and do what had to be done.
There was breakfast and more stories, and now the children clustered about the robots, holding onto their arms, where they could cling, tagging and frisking along behind the robots as they went down into the town.
Lyad hadn't learned in detail, but some of the robots appeared to have demonstrated rather alarming possibilities.
A couple of workmen were guiding a dozen big cleaning robots around the Plasmoid Exhibition Hall, which wouldn't be open to students or visitors for another few hours.
Somehow I couldn't see therobots calmly waiting to be blown up.
Robots weren't supposed to act on their own initiative.
Apparently the robots did not object to occasional flights, but the air bus was not allowed to run, not even with a human driver.
Ignoring the squirming man, the 5A gestured toward the Copter, and the other robots swarmed over to it.
They're stopping robotsin the streets--household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them.
The people had quieted down, still barricaded in their houses, and therobots went their way peacefully enough.
Without therobots they were forced to do their own marketing, their own cooking, their own errands.
They merely sat back and blamed me for allowing myrobots to get out of hand and lead their own servants astray.
And there was the space flight simulator with men practicing in it, although for the time being only robots were taking off from Earth.
There was a thought, once, that robots would make human beings obsolete and replace them.
A dachshund, Schnitz, which a little boy put in almost the same category as the flat, rubber-tired robots that cleaned the rooms.
Beings that are really robots are already controlling part of their own production.
While the guard-robots rumbled through the rain on their caterpillar treads, Eddie simply passed out from weariness on the floor of the living room.
The day came when the household robots were fixing up the guestroom specially for Uncle Mitch again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
