Word: robotics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate of the Christian (NonLawyer) Committee; and Elijah the Prophet, 40, of New York City, who sent the FEC a bonus along with his registration papers: a copy of his book, The Time of the End. But surely the wave of the future is a beeping Baltimore independent, Rebecca Robot, who pledges "high-tech jobs for people." A nation governed by a robot? She, or rather it, would certainly be the ultimate machine politician...
...crew will try to recover and repair a $150 million scientific satellite called Solar Max (for Solar Maximum Mission), which was launched in February 1980, at the approaching peak of the solar cycle, to gather information on the effects of the sun's activities on the earth. The robot observatory has been crippled for the past three years because of a minor electrical problem. Flying to the satellite with his manned maneuvering unit (MMU), an astronaut will attach himself to the ailing bird. Then he will use the force of the MMU'S jets to arrest the satellite...
...cargo bay, Astronauts Bruce McCandless II, 46, and Robert Stewart, 41, both of whom are making their initial shuttle trips, will be rehearsing the first repair of a satellite in orbit. That is slated to take place in April, when astronauts attempt to retrieve and revive a $150 million robot scientific observatory nicknamed Solar Max, which has been spinning helplessly since it broke down three years ago. If this tinkering succeeds, it could pave the way for even more ambitious efforts, including the assembly of President Reagan's proposed space station...
While the machine may be a new star, the star has often been a machine disguised as a person. On My Living Doll, Julie Newmar was a robot who camouflaged her engineering as sexual equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show...
...robot serves its three private-eye associates as a mobile data bank and uses its sensitive radar to warn them of approaching danger (usually a helicopter...