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A smaller machine followed it

“My workers,” Marchetti said “I have seventeen hundred robots of different sizes and designs doing most of the construction”

“Free-range robots,” Kurt noted

“Oh yes, they can go anywhere on the island,” Marchetti boasted

Halfway down the path, the robots were joined by several others, for somewhere

“Must be break ti

“Actually, it is,” Marchetti said “Not like a person’s break, but they’re programmed to watch their oer levels When they run low, they return to the power nodes and plug theo back to work It’s pretty much a twenty-four/seven operation”

“What if they have an accident?” Joe asked

“If they break down, they send out a distress signal, and other robots coet theet fixed and sent back on the line”

“Who tells them what to do?” Kurt asked

“A et instructions downloaded through Wi-Fi They report progress to the central cos It also tracks progress and makes adjustments A second set of smaller robots check on the quality level”

“Supervisor robots,” Kurt said, almost unable to contain a chuckle

“Yeah,” Marchetti said, “in a way, but without all that labor/ement strife”

Marchetti restarted the golf cart, and moments later they were back on foot, three decks down, and entering his lab The sprawling space was a htly colored patent leather, steel walls showing a bit of condensation, and blinking computers and screens Everywhere screens

Soft blue light bathed the rooe circular , front and center On the other side of that , fish swaht danced