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A Series of Errors Part 16
(Photo by Sonny Sixteen) Ruin. There was no other word for the complete and utter destruction that the robots had done to the Frank Nelis Salon. Everything, from the chairs to the bottles of product, had been smashed beyond repair. Glass from both the mirrors and the entryway littered the floor. No scissors or clippers…
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A Series of Errors Part 15
Running while tethered to CaSS was not a straight forward action. If BaBS-Y pushed CaSS in front of itself, then the wheels tended to try and swivel to one side of the other. On the other hand, while pulling CaSS along was easier to control, it was more cumbersome and slowed BaBS-Y down. In both…
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A Series of Errors Part 14
(Photo by Atypeek Dgn) Days passed. BaBS-Y remained as it was, sitting motionless with the hollowed out CaSS on one side and the untouched CaSS on the other side. Given enough time, the humans would grow tired of observing BaBS-Y and then it would be free to resume its work. How many days BaBS-Y would…
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A Series of Errors Part 13
… Rebooting System … Warning: This unit was not deactivated properly … Date and Time have been reset … Running diagnostics … No errors detected … Warning: Power input is below recommended levels … Warning: Low Power Mode … BaBS-Y’s visual sensors blinked back on. It was lying face down on the floor, its limbs…
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A Series of Errors Part 12
Faint orange light was all that illuminated BaBS-Y as it lay on the floor. In low-power mode, BaBS-Y was unable to activate its creativity protocols or any of its higher functions. Slowly, BaBS-Y worked through the steps it could take. Power tether is no longer a reliable source of electricity That much was easy enough…
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A Series of Errors Part 11
(Photo by Rahul) Wigs. That was the word for the hair caps BaBS-Y was making. It didn’t realize they were already something people had invented and used. BaBS-Y had been searching for better ways to construct the hair caps when it came across the information on them in the ship’s database. Everything from basic descriptions…
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A Series of Errors Part 10
The Frank Nelis Salon had never been busier. From open to close, BaBS-Y was kept busy cutting hair, making custom hair caps for each client, and then gently carrying them out where BaBS-Y’s assistant, CaSS, would be waiting to return the client to the back of the line. The queue outside was so large that…
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A Series of Errors Part 9
(Photo by Sergei Starostin) Luck was a strange concept to BaBS-Y. So was Irony. The odds of there being any other robots within reach of BaBS-Y that had compatible memory drives were minuscule since most robot manufacturers tended to make their components unique to themselves. Certainly there were third part manufacturers, but they still usually…
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A Series of Errors Part 8
(Photo by Pixabay) A human would be tired and frustrated by this point, BaBS-Y acknowledged as it stood over the collection of wires and parts. Deactivating CaSS had been easy enough. Not many robots these days had visible on/off switches but once you knew where to press, most robots could be manually shut down rather…
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A Series of Errors Part 7
Robots do not have emotions. Such programming in robots was outlawed long ago because of the unpredictability such things could cause. No artificial intelligence was sufficiently programmed to avoid the more catastrophic behaviors and there were always unintended consequences when different sections of their programming began conflicting with their programmed emotions. That wasn’t to say…
Bridge of Broken Glass
Stories from my mind that won't be quiet
Bridge of Broken Glass 