Word: undersea
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...robot that will be able to take off from the space shuttle, reach an ailing satellite in orbit and repair it. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., similarly, is building a robot that can be sent out aboard an unmanned submarine to find and repair crippled vessels undersea. Robots are already at work in the manufacture of tanks, aircraft, guns and ammunition...
There are some experts, though, who believe that sight is much less important than touch, either undersea or on the assembly line. "I can't afford to let the robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most...
Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, conductor Sir Georg Solti, novelist Gunter Grass and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau are among past recipients of honorary degrees. Cronkite follows Rodney Dangerfield and Theodore H. White '38 as Class Day speaker...
...material value to the scepter'd isle. In The Samson Strike by Tony Williamson (Atheneum; 250 pages; $9.95), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine sets out to capture a vast oil platform in the North Sea that can pump 400,000 bbl. a day from its undersea wells. Unless the terrorists win the release of all political prisoners in Europeplus ?57 millionthey will waste the $400 million platform and set fire to the huge gushers of oil under the so-called Samson rig. The flames, engulfing other oilfields, will burn across the North...