Word: robots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scientists who shared a loosely defined mandate: to make dumb machines act as if they had human intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place within ten years...
...like the product of a child's Erector Set took off from Florida on a historic mission. Equipped with primitive electronic eyes and other instruments, Pioneer 10 flew past the giant planet Jupiter, providing the first startling close-up view of that distant world. Now the surprisingly durable robot, whose working parts were designed by its builder, TRW, to last only two or three years, has scored another remarkable achievement. Propelled by a gravitational boost from Jupiter, it has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system and enter the realm of the stars...
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...