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GUARD DUTY Tmsuk's security robot patrols a set route. When it detects suspicious objects, it picks them up and transports them to a designated area...
ALMOST HUMAN An "actroid" greeting robot walks, gestures and provides information in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English...
...Hayabusa ("falcon") spacecraft is powered not by a conventional liquid chemical rocket but by an ionized-xenon-gas engine, a propulsion system that is 10 times more efficient. Just as novel is a half-kilogram rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about the surface...
...much dull heavy-handedness is required to convince an audience of a film’s Importance? Do you know about the war in Iraq—and don’t you think it’s bad? Is that Tom Cruise, or a working-class sex robot from “A.I.”? Haven’t I seen that scene in “Jurassic Park”? Wait, it’s over? Where can I get my money back...
Such high spirits--and the successes behind them--don't always make headlines. The world has long had a weak spot for spaceships that carry astronauts, often overlooking the robot craft that fly out on their own. And yet in the long history of space travel, it's the robots that have gone the farthest and done the most. And it's J.P.L. that has sent the majority of them on their...