Word: robotics
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...doesn't the Army try robot soldiers, with the officers completely stationed in the Pentagon...
Luxury of Floors. The company fights, constantly loses men whom their comrades hardly have time to mourn. Once in a while, they are sent back for a rest where a dry floor in a shattered building is a treasured luxury and each fighting robot becomes briefly an individual with opinions. Wilson's dialogue is good and true, peppered with obscenities that do not offend because they are used with a naturalness free of novelist's guile...
Last Friday and Saturday, M.I.T.'s "Dramashop" produced Karel Capek's "R.U.R."--Rossum's Universal Robots--at Boston's Peabody Playhouse. Capek's play, which describes a future society dominated by robets, has been repeated reasonably often during the last 20 years; it was a logical choice for a robot-minded group of students...
Bush visualizes nests of robot weapons guarding strategic centers. Ramjet missiles would be loosed against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...
...temperamental robot will not affect the delivery of the rest of the October subsistence checks, which are being mailed out on schedule, Monro added...