Word: robots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some were little people in costume and others were computer generated...
...nothing on that serving line comes before the doughnuts. The slow speed of the doughnut machine--a "Donut Robot"--requires an early start for the bakers. "The hour is dictated by the doughnuts," says Sanchez-Ramirez. "It almost seems comical that decisions are based on how to get the doughnuts out," she says...
...Donut Robot dispenses doughnuts from a conveyor belt at the rate of 24 dozen an hour. To make the 80 or 90 dozen doughnuts that Harvard consumes each morning takes nearly three hours...
...show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism, whose poetic meaning (like hers) was anguish in the face of inhuman technology. No phase of modern art showed such profound doubts about the present, or threw off such febrile dreams about new social orders. The millenarian hope that eventually spawned the totalitarianism of the '30s was felt by artists, architects...
...polio and discovered the earth's radiation belt. It created the laser, the transistor, the microchip and the electronic computer, broke the genetic code and conjured up the miracle of recombinant DNA technology. It described the fundamental nature of matter, solved the mystery of the quasars and designed the robot craft that explored distant planets with spectacular success. And, as promised, it landed a man on the moon...