"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by Ray Bradbury set in Allendale, California in 2026. The city has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Despite this, a house and the computers that control it have survived intact, even though its inhabitants are dead. During the course of the story, readers follow the house going through its normal routine to take care of its inhabitants, such as cleaning and preparing meals despite the inhabitants being dead.

At 10 pm, the house begins to die when a bough crashes through the window of the kitchen and a spark ignites a solvent. The house begins automated protocols to suppress the fire. The phrase "blind robot faces" is used in the following passage:

From attic trapdoors, blind robot faces peered down with faucet mouths gushing green chemical.

These fire suppression robots are insufficient to put out the fire and the house burns. The phrase also is significant because it is an emblem of the artificial intelligence of the house as a whole which is a "blind robot" insofar as it has been blind to the deaths of its owners.