The second is mechanical intelligence, which is the ability to handle physical objects.

"As a cyberneticist my whole life has been spent in the study of synthetic mechanical intelligence.

I was not to deliver these portents until you were free of the grasp of mechanical intelligences.

He had found a "mechanical intelligence."

When the mechanical intelligence learned their creators intended to explore warp points, some possibly leading to other universes, they became afraid.

That plan was launched, like a javelin-better, like a cunning shipkiller missile, with its own mechanical intelligence.

Praetor - robot or armored figure with Roman centurion-aesthetic; creator or ally of Omniac, a mechanical intelligence.

He found that she had a quick mechanical intelligence and swiftly picked up the theory involved, although she found the thought of communicating by machinery somewhat distasteful.

And, in the second place, we all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense with muscular exertion at a pinch.

What a mechanical intelligence might be, how it would work and how it would relate to Mentor Civilization was what he might be about to determine.

Mr. Ford advised that "we've got to put a great emphasis on human intelligence - we went overboard on mechanical intelligence, where you relied on instruments and equipment to get data."

With no mental energy or thought waves in the air, and mechanical intelligences operating, he decided to start from basics-he would speak Velantian, difficult and unexpressive though that obsolete tongue seemed to him.

It took some time for Worsel and Kinnison to work out the exact wording, trying to anticipate what would be tactful for an unknown, alien, mechanical intelligence, assuming that be somehow would be able to read it.

War with the self-aware Men of Iron had led to the fall of that distant Empire and, if the old, deeply arcane records Heldane had been privy to were correct, that was why the Imperium had outlawed any soulless mechanical intelligence.

And here I was, I thought, a latter-day barbarian camping in the deserted city of a vanished race, with another barbarian swinging at the end of a rope in the next door and a mechanical intelligence working on a problem that no one knew, perhaps least of all himself.

When later he had proved precocious beyond prudence in matters related to direct accessing and mechanical intelligence, they had dropped all pet names in favor of his given one, which reminded them both that the danger of the future was embodied in this child who could get from any com- puter whatever it held within.