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Dancing milk cartons. Banjo playing robot dogs singing Dixie over the frozen peas. A petting zoo with live geese and goats. Free balloons and ice-cream cones. Employees disguised as ducks waddling down the aisle. Yes, it's just another happy, cornball day at Stew Leonard's, "the world's largest dairy store," according to Ripley's "Believe It or Not." But where is Stew? Why isn't the 63-year-old retailing legend greeting housewives or patting kids on the head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk...
...Willy is a clever movie toy for the kid market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals...
Anyone who thinks that habitual use of the Clintonic mood poses only distant and highly abstract dangers is sorely mistaken. Al Gore '69 is, of course, a robot, and as such relies on traditional logic circuits...
Still, Morris provides the audience with plenty of inspired entertainment along the way. The rodents that infest Marie's nightmare are purposeful robot- rats circling her with unblinking orange eyes. The various outbursts of sibling rivalry are pursued with a ferocity that prompts youngsters in the audience to pinch the overdressed child in the next seat. For the parents, Morris, 37, and his visual collaborator, comic-strip artist Charles Burns, also 37, offer heavily freighted tableaux -- how it was, way back when people wore bell-bottoms and leisure suits, and how it is now, when the wish for a perfect...
...robot played a key role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...