“None of that would be a problem, Robot, if you had just used stick instead,” Roy said, naturally noticing and feeling the drop in energy and by association almost forgetting he had been in the… ‘throws’ of what he considered a match.

The robot put its arms down and grabbed the edge of the kitchen island with its paddled hands in an attempt to –as it appeared to Roy– continue testing its arm, this time perching some of its weight between the arm and the island. “Roy, Roy-Roy-Roy… Roy- Roy- Roy,” the robot replied rhythmically, “You and I both know –thanks to the soft and supple skin of human hands– that if I went with an arc weld –particularly on a surface human hands were to handle– that I’d have to...

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