Roy redirected his attention to sizing another flower and shook away a smile as the robot’s primary optics closed the margins of the blind spot in its primary lens’ field of vision

-the lack of a peripheral blind spot for the optical unit’s top mounted optical sensor beneath an omni-field, fisheye lens that allowed it a general sense of the robot’s surroundings during such optical unit rotations and its corresponding polarize-tinted housing notwithstanding-

knowing the primary optics to the front of the unit would be capable of discerning micro-expressions on his face; even from the current distance between them.

Upon reaching its intended focal position on Roy, the robot’s optical unit began to reverse its rotation at a speed m...

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