But I reprogrammed the recognition codes, and they won't treat him as Roubor Transic, nor will they obey any order he gives them. He's Mr. X to themechs, a casual human to be taken care of just as well as possible, but never, never released.
2001, Robert I. Katz,Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future, page100:
He particularly liked the box full of "companions," small, hand-heldmechs with advanced AI functions, programmed as individual advice and information systems.
2006, Lou Anders,Futureshocks, page75:
She grew up in Lower Manhattan, suffering the impeccably programmed attentions of the nannymechs that did the work her mother and father couldn't be bothered with.
2019, Ron S. Nolan,Met Chron New-Humans:
After a round of hugs and kisses, they headed to the lounge where Genie met them at the door and escorted them to the new VIP section followed by amech that took their drink orders.
1979, Daved V. Arel, “Switchitis”, inMech, page 6:
Yes, Switchitis. It's a highly contagious disease which can affect all propellermechs. This disease can be costly, but usually not to themechs. They're just the carriers. The people most affected by this disease are the flightcrews – those fearless adventurers who go flying around in machines that youmechs have worked on.
2011, Fred Milson,Complete Bike Maintenance, MVP Books,→ISBN,page88:
To fit a braze-on frontmech without breaking the chain, remove the nut and bolt from the chain cage, as shown.
2015, Chris Boardman,The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette,→ISBN,page54:
Campagnolo made one more giant step forward when the company developed the first parallelogram rear mechanism—the Gran Sport—in 1951. Its parallelogram action and double jockey wheels are how all rear mechanisms (or rearmechs for short) operate today.
“mech”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
