Word: robotics
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...brought out everything from the upstairs shop: skulls, crowns, wings, robes, robot helmets and headdresses,” said Hawley...
...Tick bets that old-fashioned superhero tales will not, so to speak, fly today. The dim-bulb hero (Patrick Warburton, Seinfeld's Puddy) is a font of cockeyed metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that is supposedly a no-no now. Except that...
...latest production: the Studio Ghibli Museum. Here the other side of Miyazaki is on full display: the childlike enthusiast, bursting with inventiveness. The multicolored building pokes out like the stub of a rainbow from a wooded corner of a vast Tokyo park. A towering metal sculpture of a robot character from his film Castle in the Sky stands sentry. Inside, a handcrafted fan whirs like an airplane propeller from the glass ceiling of a four-story atrium. Elf-size doors lead to secret passageways, and tiny benches line the theater showing new Miyazaki film shorts...
...become nosy and suspicious. There is no such thing in Israel as an unattended package. If someone leaves a bag behind, within minutes a citizen alerts the police, who clear the area until the bomb squad can send in a robot to blow it up. This is such a common scene in Israeli cities that it doesn't even draw a crowd. Israelis tend to be acutely aware of who is around them. They search faces and notice odd behavior--for instance, a man wearing a heavy jacket in summertime. That kind of vigilance has paid off on occasion, thwarting...
...agent that answers general news questions. Send a message to the screen name SmarterChild, for example, and the bot created by ActiveBuddy, based in New York City, will deliver headlines and stock quotes in less than five seconds. It takes a little longer, however, to download a cute little robot icon from the company's website...