What is "bots"

Usage examples of "bots".

She had been fascinated to learn that some bots occupied high-level positions as administrators, scientists, and even gengineers.

He wondered if the bots were any happier than he in their dormitory ghettoes, away from their human masters and supervisors, their overlords.

He had seen news reports of murdered bots, stripped of roots and leaves and flowers.

A view of assembly lines, staffed almost entirely by bots, the blossoms on their heads making long rows of colorful blossoms, interrupted occasionally by the smoother heads of humans.

The bots took a few more steps and passed a shabbily dressed human who extended a cane to trip the nearest.

Some, like the human poor, were unemployed, for there were more menial jobs than bots to fill them.

Frederick wondered whether the bots had been allowed to return home to their dorm that morning, when they had left work.

All were there to confirm the news reports that the park was open once more, the damage to the bot dorm had been repaired, and the bots were back in their home.

They had been here before, in better times, when there had been neat rows of infant bots, rooted in the rich soil near the little duck pond, unable to move until their legs had shaped within their trunks and their nervous systems had matured enough to command their muscles.

The bots were fertile creatures, as they needed to be to maintain their numbers.

In that strip, mounds of dirt marked where dead honey-bums, rioters, and bots had been buried.

He could not even tell the killers how much they depended on the bots, who worked at jobs and for pay scales no human would accept, or on the gengineers, who had appeared just before the vaunted Machine Age must have used up the resources it required.

He imagined that in due time the upper bots, the ones Alice Belle had said owned their own building and had apartments and worked by day, would join them there.

They watched as armed guards yelled and gestured the bots into a long line before the gate.

That gentleness seemed oddly diffident, as if the guards were not sure whether the Engineers were friends or foes, or the bots were wards or prisoners.