Word: roboticized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of those who rushed to buy an expensive robotic system got less than they bargained for. At a Ford Motor plant in St. Louis, snags in 200 production-line robots delayed the 1986 introduction of the Aerostar minivan. Then the discovery that the same robots had been skipping many...
GM's main handicap at the moment is its high production costs, which analysts put at $11,500 an auto, compared with $9,800 at Ford and $9,300 at Chrysler. A prime reason, ironically, is GM's multibillion-dollar rush to reduce labor costs by installing robotic factories, many...
More advanced craft are on the way. The Navy's National Ocean Systems Center in San Diego is developing ROVs that operate free of a tether. These AUVs--autonomous underwater vehicles--will be programmed for missions before they are dropped overboard. "The next step," says Howard Talkington, head of NOSC...
Poggio's project is part of a decade-long effort at MIT to develop computers or robotic devices which can duplicate all the major capabilities of the human body, including sight, hearing and speech comprehension, touch, manipulative ability, locomotion, and reasoning power.
When perfected, the hand will be connected to--what else--a robotic arm, and this is where Professor Tomas Lozano-Perez and his fellow researchers come in.