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...FILM | Robot Stories...
...Robot Stories...
...wonderful moment in Tomorrowland came during lunch when a trash can started following Jack around the outdoor caf?. There must have been a camera somewhere, and an anonymous someone guiding the robot. It looked just like all the other receptacles in the courtyard, but it was alive. When I fed it my empty paper cup, it said, ?Thank you, sir.? When Caroline gave it a used napkin, it said, ?Delicious!? Then it burped...
Planets and Politics As a robot rover transmits striking shots of Mars, Bush calls for human exploration of the Red Planet. Is the President's proposal just an election-year gimmick...
...caught the scientists' eyes. The far smaller Sojourner rover that landed on Mars in 1997 never moved more than 39 ft. from its home base. But Spirit is built to roam, and its cameras have spotted some inviting, 300-ft.-high mounds nearly 1.25 miles (2 km) away. The robot was designed to travel only about half that distance, but there's nothing to say it can't exceed expectations. Matt Golembek, a J.P.L. geologist, thinks Spirit has a shot at capturing the view from the summit of a mound. "Given how smooth and flat the terrain is," he says...