You skid to a stop against the cold cement wall, and bang on the locked metal door of the safe haven. Hurried footsteps penetrate through the sound of the rain, growing louder with each passing moment. Surely, it wasn't supposed to be locked at a time like this. Shaking the icy water off your cold-numbed hands you rummage around in your pocket desperate to find the device. You can barely feel its sharp metal body stabbing into your fingers, but the nerves reawakening to your pocket warmth tell you you have it. Gingerly, you pull out a tiny robot and place it at the lock of the door "You got this" you say to the little guy, who nods and immediately gets to work picking the lock.
If that's not some cool gadgetry straight out of my sci-fi dreams then I don't know what is. Lock picking has always been made to look like one of the coolest things a human can do regardless of whether you're an analogue safe cracker or a cyberpunk decryptionist. Having a robot that can pick that lock for you, well that's the next level and it looks like I'm not the only one to dream of such things.
