Word: roboticism
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Some scenes are appallingly bad. When Williams' robotic housekeeper Weebo is crushed by one of the villains, the ensuing pathos is ridiculously laughable. The lamenting over a machine that looks like a compressed CD player is corny and manipulative. Similarly, the confrontations between Williams and the villains are only tolerable...
It's all part of an engineered package: expect little containers of green slime and robotic Weebo's under every Christmas tree this year. "The movie's forgettable," even Disney seems to admit, "so why not buy a toy to help you remember it?"
From an engineer of robotic replacements for human limbs to an authority on how men and women work together, this semester's Faculty has grown in number and knowledge.
Robert D. Howe--whose work in bioengineering includes robotic prosthetics--and Woodward Yang, an electrical engineer specializing in micro-electronics, had both spent seven years in the DEAS before receiving tenure.
The atmosphere, in fact, threatens to dwarf the human players in the fore-ground--which may not be a bad thing. The actors, in keeping with their genetically programmed characters, tend to the robotic and expressionless. Hawke's efforts at making a ripple in this monolith are muted and only...