Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Space agency officials would only say that three NASA ships were at sea conducting sonar sweeps and photographing underwater objects with robot subs...
Astronaut Judy Resnik, 36, used the shuttle's robot arm to delicately break away a chunk of ice that built up on the side of the space shuttle Discovery during her first flight...
Although such blind repetition may be sufficient for commercial applications, says Lozano-Perez, it does not exploit the full potential of the robot. He hopes to construct robots that need only general instructions, instead of the highly specified directions that present-day robots require. His creations would then by themselves identify needed parts, convey them to pre-ordained locations, and work them around--as a human might--until they fit properly...
Poggio says he predicts that within 10 years, "you will be able to buy, for the price of a car, a home robot that will clean the floor, make the beds, cook...
Other scientists are more restrained in their estimates. Hollerbach says robots like the one Poggio described are probably a long way off. For the present, he calls attempting to embody all artificial intelligence research in a single robot "a waste of time," because while the research remains primarily in the theoretical and experimental stages, "the whole will be less than the sum of its parts...