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Andros Mark VI-A $70,000 (basic model) This hazardous-duty robot can climb stairs at a 45 [degree] angle and make 180 [degree] turns. It can carry two TV monitors and open fire on targets with a mounted shotgun. Its 17-in.-to-19-in. width allows it to get into tight spots...
Area 51 must be a busy place; everyone has a theory about what's inside. Aliens. Abductees. Elvis. "I think what's hidden in Area 51 is Kyle MacLachlan's career, particularly after Showgirls," suggests comedian Kevin Murphy, the voice of the robot Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000, which last week found a new home on the Sci-Fi Channel. "Or how about this? All those socks from all those dryers get sucked through your dryer vents into a porthole, and they end up in Area 51. The government scrapes some of your DNA off the socks...
DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...
...Rainforest Cafe's Motley Fool message board--an online repository of comments about a fast-growing chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...
Auction fever crossed time zones faster than Air Force One. In Chicago Ralph Goldenberg, whose wife Helyn is a senior vice president of Sotheby's, spent $63,000 to buy J.F.K.'s putter, a Robot K-44, and gave it to his business partner, Christopher Heymeyer. The latter is now a minor celebrity at the Board of Trade, where the two work. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'There's the guy; his partner bought him the putter.' There's a huge excitement," Heymeyer says. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'Can I see it? Can I touch...