The realicy equivalent of a robot, as is found in Automated Alice by Zenith O'Clock... Or Jeff Noon if you prefer. Terbot are powered by termites who, despite being antsy about wurms are rather good at using the beanery system for calculations. Celia Hobart is a terbot as well as James Marshall Hentrails. Pablo Ogdon is the reverse butcher who created Automated Alice and Jimi.