Wood

'Yes, sir', said Cedar 23, 'my designer builds all her robots with wood.'

'Over standard electromechanical frames, I imagine.'

'No, sir. Only with wood.'

'What? But how can she do that?'

'With a lot of patience, sir.'

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Winding

Hanging on the walls of the studio were photographs of plant brains. Their convolutions traced winding paths that were both similar to those of human brains and, yet, strangely different.

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Moss

"Moss provides very high sensitivity,' she explained. 'That's why I put it on the inside of my robots' hands, from the palms to the fingertips, as well as under their feet, to improve their balance.'

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Hiking

'Our designer often goes hiking,' commented Cedar 23, 'and sometimes even, she does not comes back until the next morning. But she always brings back rare or unusual plants, flowers, or barks, which she then studies for several days.'

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Branch

'One day,' Cedar 23 went on, 'she brought back a branh which she potted. If you placed your hand close to the pot, the branch would flex slowly and move to meet it. No, we do not know how or why it dit ; only she knows.'

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Grow

'Our designer eventually found out how to get this branch to grow,' Cedar 23 went on, 'and graft it. Soon enough she made it into a network. The humanoid shape, of course, was the most familiar to her, and came to her automatically.'

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Pathway

'From the sunflowers in the fields at the end of this pathway, she took the fibers which make our limbs move. For us, it is not the sun that controls them; we do expose ourselves to it, but only to recharge.'

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Green

"Paint work?" replied Cedar 23. "No. Our designer has always refused to invent our barks when nature provides so many original ones. I assure you, the green-and-white marbled appearance of Maple 2 is entirely natural."

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