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** The same film features another robot, the appropriately named TYP-E, whose job seems to be typing on a keyboard. [[FridgeLogic Using hunt-and-peck.]]

* In Creator/RickGriffin's ''Literature/AniDroids'', after "something" in Eo's operating system escapes the Koenig Industries server's sandbox and causes the whole system to crash, Million loads the code onto a "dumb" machine and attempts to read it on the monitor using her optical sensors on the assumption that'll be enough to prevent the virus from installing itself on her. [[BrownNote It's not.]]
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', a character brings up the question of why robots always seem to be built as humanoids; part of the given answer was that when designing a general-purpose machine, it was simplest to have it use tools and control mechanisms made for human use.
** In his ''Risk'' short story, an engineer boards an experimental hyperspace ship to see why it didn't launch. It turns out the robot pilot pulled too hard on the starter lever and bent it.

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* The novelization to ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' movie discusses the trope saying that humans are being made to become more like robots (communicators built into their helmets etc.) while droids talk out loud to each other rather than having some instantaneous electronic communication.

* Yuki Nagato from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' prefers to simply type on her keyboard, despite the fact that [[spoiler:she's a data-based alien lifeform]] and could literally just ''talk'' to the computer and get it to do what she wanted. In this case, it's justified, as Kyon asked her not to cheat by [[spoiler:using her data manipulation abilities]]. And as we know, [[SugarAndIcePersonality Yuki always listens to Kyon.]]

* The novelization to ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' movie discusses the trope saying that humans are being made to become more like robots (communicators built into their helmets etc.) while droids talk out loud to eachother rather than having some instantaneous electronic communication.

* In a codec conversation in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Bladewolf explains to Raiden why he can't just plug into a computer: his AI is neuro-optical, structured differently from Von Neumann computer architecture, and runs on different protocols.

Contrast BrainComputerInterface, ElectronicTelepathy.

** This seems to be the sole (intended) purpose of AUTO. An explanation is that the builders of the ark ships may have wanted to make sure the captain knows what AUTO is doing. It also allows the current captain of the ''Axiom'' to physically wrassle with AUTO.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpaceHeroes'' (also known as "that one Doraemon movie where they become superheroes") have the gang gaining superpowers thanks to Doraemon's gadgets. Suneo from the main cast notably becomes a GadgeteerGenius whose left hand can turn into half a dozen smaller robotic hands, typing simultaneously into all kinds of control panels and controlling multiple machines at the same time.

* The computer, Deep Thought in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' watches a cartoon on a television at one point instead of watching or knowing it internally.

** Marvin sometimes uses vocal commands. In [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]] he opens the black spaceship's airlock by saying "Abracadiodularservosystems". It would be hard to judge whether he would find a plug in or voice control easier. He'd certainly be depressed by either option.