moravec

All my manipulators and flagella have gone to that big moravec heaven in the sky.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

“What possible use is that to a moravec now that the human race may be extinct?”

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

It might be good enough, thought the little moravec.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Paris has been ordered to stay behind in Ilium, tasked by his older brother with the heavy responsibility of protecting their homes and loved ones in the ancient city — domed now by the moravec forcefield, but more securely protected, Hector has said, by bronze spearpoints and human courage.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

He tugged, shoved, thrust, and generally moravec-hauled the huge Ionian into the almost-empty payload bay.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

“Uruk Sulcus,” said Koros III on the common band and for a moment Mahnmut thought the command-moravec was choking or cursing before he noted the slightly sentimental tone to his usually cool voice and realized that Koros must have been referring to some region on Ganymede itself — a half-glimpsed grooved and dirty snowball flashing past — that must be home to the Ganymedan.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

The deep-space moravec was tethered in the center of the enlarged gondola, strapped down by many meters of line and set into a frame Mahnmut had hammered together.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Orphu of Io eight-ton, six-meter-long, crab-shaped, heavily armored hard-vac moravec who works in the sulfur-torus of Io; Proust enthusiast

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Hinted at now only by their periscopes and the tops of their black-metal sails, three Belt moravec ballistic missile submarines cruise through the Martian sea.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

A heavy-use moravec of ancient design, built to withstand plasma torus and sulfur geysers, the Io-based entity was at least three meters tall and six meters long, shaped rather like a terrestrial horseshoe crab — heavily armored, with an untidy myriad of morphable appendages, thrusters, lenses, flagella, whip antennae, broad-spectrum sensors and facilitators.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981