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Robots
Patented: History of Inventions
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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