Robots
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Digesting Duck
Pobots are fake robots. They were created to replicate things that couldn't be replicated, but presented as thogh successful. The digesting duck was an example of a pobot - you could feed pellets and it would poop. But actually the excrement was held in a cabinet inside. It wasn't taking nutrients and anything from the pellets it was being fed. So it was a magic trick, essentially. Also, i telling a conjuring trick. And we'll go on to mind inadverted commes in a bit. I wanted to stick with bodies for that time.
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