Roamer
Names: Roamerroamersremote observation and manipulation devicesfleasspiderspiders
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 3 (Bob – June 25, 2133)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 3Roamers are spider-like, eight-limbed robots run by a low-level AMI; each limb can be a leg, a hand or a tool such as a plasma cutter.
- Ch 6Roamers range from eight-foot spiders down to gnat-sized units; below that are single-purpose nanites.
- Ch 8Roamers are tough small robots that can climb walls and ceilings and carry pliers, cutters and screwdrivers.
Book 3: All These Worlds
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 24Roamers, invented about two hundred years earlier, remain eight-legged general-purpose robots, now with Casimir power sources.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 52A roamer finds a library or bookstore in a Roanoke town and opens its simple latched door to get inside.
- Ch 54Roamers scan the library book by book, fleeing maintenance bots that try to collect them.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 3The roamer test
Dr. Landers brings forward Bob's test with remote manipulator robots, and Bob uses them to stack blocks with growing skill.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Raid on the project
Black-clad attackers raid the project complex; Bob frees his roamers and swarms them until security guards force a surrender. Three people are killed.
- Book 5 · Ch 52A library is found on Roanoke
Drones and roamers map a Roanoke town, observe automated maintenance, and discover a book repository that a roamer manages to enter.
- Book 5 · Ch 54Scanning the Roanoke library
Roamers scan the library's books while Icarus and Daedalus, in mannies, study Roanokian writing and the planet's abandoned state.