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Binary loadlifter

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CLL-M2 Binary Loadlifter.
"Vaporators! Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters - very similar to your vaporators in most respects."
―C-3PO[src]

Binary loadlifters were low-level labor droids that functioned in a cargo loading capacity. Binary loadlifters are one of the best examples of the pre-Republic droid inventions in the galaxy's murky history. Most load lifters have two strong hydraulic limbs which can slide underneath crates and other cargo, although some have strong grasper-like claws for smaller cargo. A loadlifter can only speak in binary code. A loadlifter can understand simple verbal commands, but more complex requests are better left to the protocol droids. All loadlifters have a single photorecepter that doubles as a cargo code reader. They are very dull witted. A well-known example of this is an incident on the planet Stassia in which a loadlifter stacked crate after crate on top of one another, the floor boards straining beneath the weight and finally collapsing. The loadlifter looked down the very deep hole, and returned for another crate. With no guidance for such a situation, it continued its work and dropped every crate down the hole.

C-3PO believed he had initially been employed in the preparation of binary loadlifters, after his memory was erased aboard the Tantive IV.

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