Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the student scientists finally did, in fact, is make a robot. "We didn't make the robot for its efficiency, although it's close to what we want," says Paul M. Jury, one of the machine's creators...
...three graduate students conceived of the robot in a computer software engineering course they took two years ago. "We started talking about it in the course as a project using computer software," says Farlow, who was responsible for the computer end of the project. "We thought about making a robot that was programmable through a real computer on the robot. As it turned out, we used a radio link and programmed it through a separate computer...
Jennings and Koppel put events into the context of U.S. cultural history by referring to collage boxes filled with such props as Hula-Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...
...cargo, three communications satellites, and promptly ran into trouble. As they were attempting to temporarily open the sunshield on AUSSAT, an Australian satellite, the shield snagged on AUSSAT's antenna and stuck. Although the astronauts managed to nudge the sunshield completely open with Discovery's 50-ft. robot arm, NASA decided it was too risky to close the screen again; if it could not be reopened, the satellite would be useless in orbit...
Competition in the toy business is far from childlike. The robot, introduced in April 1984, edged ahead of its rival partly because of a heavy ad campaign coupled with a syndicated television show, Transformers, that features some of the 50 different varieties of the toy. Hasbro Bradley estimates that it will sell 30 million robots this year, for total sales of $200 million...