Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presenting Robot Redford...
...have been asked. But at Maryland's Anne Arundel Community College later this month, the not-entirely-welcome commencement speaker will feel nothing, because he is an it: a 5-ft.-2-in.-tall, 175-lb. mobile machine loaded with a computer and named, by its California manufacturer, Robot Redford...
...Robot Redford, remotely controlled and made of fiber glass and aluminum, will march in the academic procession, but will not be dressed in gown and mortarboard. "We don't want to hoke it up," says Sara Gilbert, a spokesman for the college. The address will be delivered from the wings to the robot's speaker by its creator Bill Bakaleinikoff. Says he of his creation: "As soon as Robot gets ten minutes into his speech, they'll forget that he's a robot. Afterward they'll probably take him to the local malt shop...
...When a robot can be programmed to unload the dishwasher, then it definitely will sell...
...Automotive industry sources say that 1.7 jobs are lost for every new robot...