Word: robotized
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...passport to the comic strips, and no man ever stayed longer or showed more zany inventiveness. The Rube Goldberg machines, a byproduct of his engineering background, made him rich and world-famous. All his designs were models of ludicrous ingenuity. In his automatic stamp-licker, a dwarf robot overturned a can of ants onto a page of postage stamps, gum side up; then they were licked up by an anteater that had been starved for three days...
...Zwolak, a robot from Villanova, won individual laurels for the second consecutive year, but a well-balanced aggregation from Notre Dame pulled down team honors, with five runners finishing in the top twenty...
Crusader & Yogi. In many Western eyes, Buddhism is socially useless. It has only a limited tradition of good works; the chief duty of monks and nuns is contemplation. In The Lotus and the Robot, Arthur Koestler says of Oriental mysticism in general: "The messianic arrogance of the Christian crusader is matched by the Yogi's arrogant attitude of detachment towards human suffering...
Machine clunking and whirring through a million U.S. living rooms last year. He also gave the world the Kissy Doll and the Robot Commando. Most Glass toys embody several principles: 1) they are big (so that they "participate with a child"); 2) they are made of plastic, with all of plastic's built-in obsolescence; 3) they are eminently TV-promotable...
...Also on NBC, Cartoonists Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera have now followed their prehistoric FHntstones with another family called The Jetsons, who live so far in the future that their school-aged kids learn terms like "crazy" and "way out" in their ancient-history courses. The Jetsons have a robot maid, a sort of Hazel with gears. Father comes home from work and says he has had a hard day at the button. Little Elroy asks his mother to tell him the story about the cow that degravitated over the moon. The show is silly and unpretentious, corny and clever...