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...this week. Produced under the direction of Yurie Khlebtsevich, chairman of a Soviet technical committee working on radio and television guidance of rockets, the movie depicts the use of an unmanned baby tank, crammed with scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar to Sputnik's, the rocket would be refueled by another guided rocket...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24--The United States is hurling aloft a virtual fusillade of mighty missiles and rockets, ranging from a record-shattering shoot into outer space to spectacular destruction by a robot weapon of a target plane a hundred miles away and 60,000 feet high...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce...
...words and sentences instantly; they must also have background enough to be able to render shades of meaning and to place emphasis where the speakers want it. "We know our requirements are difficult," says Dean Stelling-Michaud, "but they have to be." A translator who is merely a babbling robot can endanger a whole international conference...
PILOTLESS LANDING systems are in sight for nation's commercial and military aircraft. New robot system developed by Bell Aircraft Corp. electronically "locks in" plane's controls in the air, uses radio-radar-computer ground unit to ease in craft for three-point landing. Developed for Navy, system has gone through 1,200 successful test landings and Bell says it will make possible entirely automatic landings in any weather...