Vanessa Labrie
speaker
647 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Vanessa Labrie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
She closes her eyes and feels the warmth of the sun's rays on her eyelids.
Then she hears something clunking outside.
She pokes her head out of the open window and looks down.
The bulky gardener robot is kneeling down in a little patch of earth between a couple of tree trunks.
Ada's curiosity gets the better of her.
She slides on some sandals, says hi to her parents as she passes them in the kitchen and heads out onto the lawn.
She's surprised no one's noticed the Gardner robot before.
The newer models are sleeker, either gleaming white or chrome.
The age of this robot shows in its design.
It's boxier all over.
And it's a dull steel from the big apertures on its processing unit of a head down through its body and its articulated joints and manipulators.
Where most robots are self-cleaning, this one has little clumps of dirt, especially on the knee joints and all up and down the manipulator arms.
It's not ugly, exactly, but it's certainly old and muddy.
Ada decides to introduce herself.
Hello, she says.
I'm Ada.
The robot stops and turns to her, giving her a polite bow.
Hello, Ada.
I am gardening unit LX8999.
Is this your property?
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