Word: robotically
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...software can target tumors accurately within 0.5 mm, preserving more healthy tissue than other techniques, with fewer side effects. The precision stems from software that incorporates two perspectives of the tumor and combines them, much the way human eyes work binocularly. It then guides the robot to fire the radiation beam on target...
...baritone belly laugh, Smith's image is that of the happy-go-lucky Everyguy. But you don't accrue $4.4 billion in worldwide box-office receipts and two Oscar nominations without machine-like drive. Smith's four most recent movies--The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch, Shark Tale and I, Robot--have each grossed more than $300 million worldwide, vaulting him into a category usually reserved for white guys named Tom. Because Smith has mastered the delicate art of appearing artless, few moviegoers realize that his is one of Hollywood's most meticulously planned and executed careers...
...principle, say the researchers, the idea could be extended to other, more complex group-living animals. Although robots would obviously have to be more sophisticated to penetrate and alter the behavior of a herd of sheep or a flock of geese, for example, it's at least conceivable that this could someday be done. In fact, Halloy and his colleagues are already working on a robot chicken to try and manipulate the behavior of chicks...
Although some of the interest in robotic vehicles comes from car companies eager to reduce traffic fatalities, it's the military that's really driving this research. The appeal is obvious: How many lives will be saved once the convoys in Iraq are unmanned? It's not as unrealistic as it sounds. Remote-controlled robot soldiers toting M249 rifles are already in the field there...
...some weeks, Ian Jobson makes 20 types of Kit Kat at the big plant he oversees in the northern English city of York, the largest Kit Kat manufacturing operation in the world. Nestle installed $11 million worth of robots on the production line last year, and a new $1.6 million automated packaging machine is due to be installed this year. The number of people needed to staff the round-the-clock operation has been cut to 28 from 60. Jobson patrols the factory floor in his white coat and hairnet, soliciting ways to improve production. Nestle sent a manufacturing SWAT...