But others-like the waiters and porters-are just software robots.

He then logged on to the global networks and dispatched the software robots he had created.

An hour later he dispatched his team of software robots again.

Someone from Evolutionary Psychology had asked what a software robot liked for lunch.

Joe didn't mention that he had just re-dispatched his software robots with fresh instructions.

He killed the current image, then pulled up from the mother server those data for the reproducing software robots.

These addresses have been harvested by software robots that read message boards, chat rooms and Web sites.

These software robots had been designed to handle the arrival of speakers of incomprehensible languages from all over the Solar System.

At Internet service providers around the world, software robots (called "mailer-demon") were rejecting hundreds of e-mail messages with bad addresses and bouncing them to me.

They are competing for the favor of a software robot!