Moravec
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Moravec is a term used by science-fiction author Dan Simmons in reference to "intelligent, self-evolving robots" (559, Ilium) that play a significant role in his Ilium and Olympos stories. The term moravec is a reference to roboticist Hans Moravec.
Though it is suggested that hundreds, if not thousands, of them exist, the moravecs Mahnmut and Orphu are the two prominent moravec characters in Simmons' novels. They originate from Jupiter's moons Europa and Io, respectively. In the first novel, [[Ilium]], Simmons suggests that the moravecs were seeded throughout the Jovian planets of Earth's solar system to harvest asteroids for construction of orbital colonies around Earth's polar and equitorial rings by post-humans, or humans that had exceeded the supposed limitations of natural evolution by engineering their own.
