Botland - Dick Blide

Isaac Asimov in his 1986 book, \Robot Dreams,\ shows and describes a very mechanistic, metal robot with rod and socket joints. He first described robotics in 1942. In the subsequent 80 years robots or bots have matured to be human-like, though differentiated by the characteristics of their humans on the different planets, e.g., being green on Xyrpta.In Botland, bots have been on Earth for only a few decades, having come from the planet Xyrpta, some 5 light years away, taking 9 years, the duration..