Word: robots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next, one hand no different from the previous 5,000. Already, the traveling press is tired to a maddening degree of Kefauver-tired physically because the man puts in one 18-hour day after another with no more sign of human emotion or human fatigue than a robot; tired mentally because Estes bores them with his unvarying routine, his dull, platitudinous, primerlike speeches repeated with little variation at stop after stop, his tedious habit of shaking one hand after another, looking at its owner with glazed, unseeing eyes, hardly hearing himself mouth some meaningless banality...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TIME, April...
...large extent, the machine relies on the talents of the doctor using it. If an inexperienced physician had made the examination, he would have punched fewer keys and been flooded with confusing cards. But, when Paycha's robot doctor was displayed at the World Cybernetics Congress in Namur, Belgium, expert ophthalmologists welcomed it because its memory is infallible. To brief his machine on the cornea, Dr. Paycha fed it a whole textbook plus references to articles in medical journals. Next project: glaucoma and diseases of the iris. Inventor Paycha believes his robot will work for any organ. His ultimate...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life and love in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TiME, April...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TIME, April...