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...first time you meet a robot can be pretty disappointing. Hollywood has taught us what to expect: a trusty sidekick like R2-D2, a gleaming robo-maid like The Jetsons' Rosey or a cyberassassin like the Terminator. The reality is very different: most robots are either mindless factory drones or blue-sky academic projects that cost a fortune, break down a lot and don't do very much. Most of them don't even have death rays...
...R2-D2 In Episode I, C-3PO is 9-year-old Anakin's science project. He befriends R2-D2 on planet Naboo and later acquires his golden outer shell...
...mathematician and her mother a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her parents raised her, she says, to be "protechnology." Breazeal became captivated by robots at age 8 when she saw Star Wars for the first time. "I just fell in love with the Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming a doctor and an astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly intrigued by lunar rovers, which are really just...
...Johnstone Strait, we catch sight of three orcas, otherwise known as killer whales. Paul Chaplow, who has spent the past 10 years in these waters, reveals the identities of the three orcas. What were moments ago little more than anonymous dorsal fins zipping by in dark waters became R2, a 62-year-old mom, and her two sons, R3, age 44, and R12, 34. Because their society is matriarchal, the sons will remain with their mother until she dies. The whales, remarkable for their complex social structure, distinct dialects and their adaptable and cooperative behavior...
...same way in this season, which is an unacceptable (not to mention unemployable) position for a journalist. From time to time, I try to be interested in what they are saying--the specialists on TV and in the papers who are lecturing on Bush, Gore, Tecumseh, the tundra, [pi]r2. (Shouldn't it be "pi is squared"?) But a blind man could see that I am drifting downstream with a weed in my teeth...