Wait so what is brau? What's his role in the story?

brau is the robot that first killed a human 8 years before the start of the story.

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at the end, atom frees brau and brau uses the spear that had been keeping him pinned to the ground inside his prison to destroy teddy, the supercomputer secretly controlling thracia that was masterminding the murder of the most powerful robots.