Never Tempt Danger by Denise Robbins

Author:Denise Robbins [Robbins, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: L&L Dreamspell
Published: 2010-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

Jimmy. Jimmy.

There he was, standing in the lab in his dark slacks and white dress shirt with his sleeves rolled up to the elbows. The robot, Morpheus, sat on the quartz counter next to the computer. When Jimmy looked up, he grinned at her, his eyes sparkled with laughter and warmth. She could not help but smile back when he looked at her like that.

“Is it turned off?”

“Yes. You don’t have to worry.”

She shrugged in an attempt to play off his accurate comment. “What’re you doing?”

“Trying to figure out how you do what you do?”

She lifted one brow.

“Why is it you can telepath something and Morpheus can read and respond to your brainwaves, but not mine?”

Ah. “Is there anyone else in the lab?” Ever since the day the robot read her mind, Jimmy had been obsessed with it. The only good thing was the fact that he only worked on his obsession when no one else was around.

“They’ve all gone for the evening.”

Gilly inclined her head and raised a finger. “I’ve been giving that some thought. I think it is two-fold.” She could not believe she was actually going to share this with him, with anyone. “The biofeedback device needs some modifications.”

“What? Why?”

“Simple. Morpheus’s neural network is programmed to receive EEG, ECG, and EOG, but the biofeedback visor device only emits EEG patterns back.”

Jimmy slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand. “I can’t believe I did not think about that. I should have realized.”

He started tapping on the keyboard of the computer and when Gilly stepped up behind him, she saw he had brought up the diagram of the visor with its listing of sensors. With a few more clicks, there were additional sensors added to the image.

“That’s step one. The other step and I think the more challenging step is mental training. It takes a high-level of attention to maintain focus on what you want to instruct the robot to do or how to react. That focus is the key factor to this feature’s success or failure. Not everyone, probably very few people will be able to reach that level of mental control.”

Jimmy’s mouth thinned. “You did it.”

“Yeah, by accident that first time. Don’t forget that I have had years, a lot of years to deal with this.” She waved her fingers at the side of her head. “I just don’t think this is something that we can expect to take off just because one or two people can possibly demo this.”

“You don’t want this do you?” he asked tugging her to him and wrapping his arms around her waist.

Hell, no! She did not want it. She wanted Jimmy to walk away from the whole idea before someone found out she was a freak. “I want to win this contract. I thought this was a great project that could help advance our defense and save some soldiers lives. I want to do what is right.”

“I agree with you one hundred percent. There are many skeptics out there and they do not want robots to replace a live soldier in the field.

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