The Curious Robot
In a far distant future, Earth was inhabited by robots and the quantity of the human race was less than thousand. There were three main classes of robots - Construction, Transport and Repair robots. This is a story of a special repair robot. He was small, new, yellow … and curious.
“I want this car operational in the next half an hour” said the blue transport robot called T-59 to the small yellow repair robot, R-62. “As per your request” replied R-62 while welding together two metal plates.
In this big city there were a lot of vehicle traffic and R-62 used to look a bit on the cars that was passing by him.
Suddenly a special fancy car came being escorted by 4 special blue robots on motorbikes.
R-62 looked at it and asked with a strong interest and asked T-59: “What is that?”
The car stopped in a special way and the four blue robots gathered to the opening of the vehicle.
“This is not a Construction Robot, not a Transport Robot, not a Repair Robot, neither a droid or android, … it is a HUMAN.” Answered the transport robot to the small yellow robot.
“Wow, a HUMAN! I have never seen one.” Said R-62.
The human stepped out of the vehicle surrounded by the four escort robots looking a bit small in comparison to the other robots.
“What a wimp!” said R-62 after gotten his first impression.
“Don’t underestimate the humans, they are superior to us robots. They are able to perform any action it wants to. Even those which robots cannot perform such as giving orders to robots, destroying them or constructing new ones. It is even able to harm another human being or organizing mass destruction, which they have been doing a lot in the history. Also it does not even have to follow orders if it does not want to,” said the Transport robot quietly to the yellow robot beside him.
“What a dangerous thing! I can only repair cars.” Said R-62.
“If you would try to harm him or give order to him your circuits would blow up” said T-59.
Jim Westergren is a company owner from Sweden who currently lives in Bolivia with his wife. Some of his interests are SEO, web development, writing and