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Each hostage has his or her own story to tell of captivity in Iran, and the combined accounts make up a mosaic of remarkable courage during months of deprivation and degradation. To illuminate pieces of that mosaic, TIME Correspondent Christopher Redman last week interviewed Charles Jones, 40, of Detroit and Correspondent Dean Brelis talked at length with Michael Metrinko, 34, of Olyphant, Pa. Their reports...
...Alexander Taylor. Reported by Christopher Redman/ Detroit...
Correspondent Christopher Redman's first encounter with a robot came late last summer at Ford's Wayne assembly plant just outside Detroit. "The thing looked like a demented turkey, but it wielded a welding gun with deadly efficiency and made a tremendous impression on me," says Redman. "I later found that the sparks from the welding gun had made a tremendous impression on my clothes as well." That confrontation helped spark this week's cover story on the robot revolution. "I became fascinated with them," says Redman. "Not just with the way they worked, but with what...
...this week's story Redman interviewed robot entrepreneurs, consultants and engineers, as well as managers and workers at Detroit auto companies, the nation's major robot users. "People kept asking me if I thought that robots would ultimately cause more problems than they solved," he says. "I have no ready answer to that, but I have learned that, despite the wonders they can work, they are incredibly stupid and remarkably inept compared to humans...
...things. In Watertown, Hopkins watched a shiny, beige Unimate Mark II robot perform a number of "unexpected and puzzling tasks" done previously by humans. "Now I realize that robots are not at all human-like but are still very impressive, even awesome in their own way," says Hopkins. Concludes Redman: "I am reassured by the fact that it will be many years before robots can replace journalists." He did not suggest how many...