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...revelry. The orgiastic festival, perhaps coinciding with the winter planting, was staged to propitiate Saturn, the sickle-wielding deity of agriculture. Now scientists gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena may be tempted to hold their own Saturnalia. Next week, after traveling for more than three years, their robot Voyager 1 spacecraft will achieve its closest encounter with Saturn, providing the most spectacular view yet of the beautifully ringed planet and its system of moons...
Back in 1971, the Mariner 9 spacecraft had just become the first ship from earth to orbit another planet. The target was Sagan's old favorite, Mars. In less than a year of reconnaissance, the robot accumulated more information about the Red Planet than had been gathered in three centuries of earlier observation from earth. Yet to Sagan's chagrin, the feat was virtually ignored by American television. Four years later, the even more spectacular Viking landings on Mars were again all but ignored. Sagan decided something had to be done. Joining up with an equally dismayed colleague...
...father becomes his son, then takes the youngster's place in his playground-a lower circle in Dante's hell. A fully automated house continues to function with mechanical mindlessness long after its inhabitants have been incinerated in a nuclear holocaust. An electrical robot grandmother does more than bake her grandchildren's favorite pies; she is a model of uncritical love. When the children grow old, she is on standby, ready for their second childhoods. An uninhabited planet resists earthlings who have come to settle...
Citing high productivity figures from Japan and West Germany, where robot use is more widespread, Villers said only 3000 robots are in use in the U.S. today--mostly in manufacturing--but he added that the number would double in the next two years...
...added that the University chose to be an original investor in Automatix, the only robot systems company in the United States, because "the robotics industry is just in its infancy and we think it has a very major application in increasing productivity...