On the back of it, an iron bed and a chair and table were tied, and on top of them a crate of Barred Rock chickens.

People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the sudden silence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock.

It has a manipulator hand containing drilling and cutting tools that allow the robot to retrieve samples of rock from the ocean bed.