Word Finder - robots

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A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

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An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

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A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

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A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).

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A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

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A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

We are about to enter a world where robots do more and more of our work for us.

Robots can perform thousands of operations flawlessly every minute.

Robots are free from the physical limits our human bodies have.

Robots can work without ceasing in environments where the temperature is a thousand degrees.

I branched off into this discussion of robots and nanites to give an idea of the kinds of massive gains in efficiency with declining costs.

Now, what if the bottom half of jobs disappeared and were replaced by robots who did them for almost free?

We will discuss the molecular machines called nanites—tiny, molecular-sized robots that will swim around in your body fighting disease, repairing damage, and alerting you to problems (and will likely dramatically increase the human lifespan).

So, spare me your cute robots with human names.

Robots can manipulate matter smaller than we can even see, and robots can effortlessly manipulate objects that weigh many tons.

These robots can be powered by computers capable of performing a billion calculations a second.

Depending on function, robots can come in all shapes and sizes, and I see no compelling reason to make them like humans.

Steven Moffat + the 18th century + killer clockwork robots = good stuff!

Robots in our future can either be a good or a bad thing.

However, the violence committed is often against robots and as a result is fairly bloodless.

We have reached the point where many items can only be made by robots.

A three day science and technology extravaganza explored all aspects of science from rockets and robots, to DNA and dinosaur bones.

This is the sense in which we humans are the robots of our genes, and are held on a very long leash.

Your mission is to construct robots which can successfully collect the precious golden cubes scattered about a variety of hostile zones.

This is suited to the control of autonomous mobile robots in order to learn to navigate around a training domain.

The robots are swimming toward us down the dark stairwell.

Some jerk their hands like robots, some seem to have facial tics, surprised by every sixth word.

With its offbeatcombination of mind-controlled robots and junior high school tragicomedy, AngelicLayer was an instant success on its 2001 Japanese release.

Thousands of microscopic robots armed with tiny tweezers could pluck the Moon bare in a matter of weeks.

The movement of the robots also controls live dynamic data from the outside of the city to create the visuals.

Robots take orders in restaurant Robot waiters are taking the orders in a restaurant in China.

And when I say robots, I don't mean androids, which are people-shaped machines doing the work of people.

But in terms of wanting to converse with robots at an emotional level, I just don't see it.

The robots I watched making Legos had no human operators because no human can keep up with them.

Houses will be built by robots using materials not yet invented that are cheaper and more energy efficient.

About clothes, and how robots will weave garments that never wear out from materials not yet invented that will cost very little.

Well, wealth would expand dramatically, and the people who had those jobs before could get new and better jobs, such as managing the army of manure-toting robots.

This is a pump priming project funded by York, which is allowing us to buy lots of very cool robots.

At the most obvious level, children were involved with tweaking numerical parameters of robots, a non-trivial exercise.

We need to figure out how to build these robots more efficiently so that we can save time and money.

I've always been fascinated by robots, so I'm writing a science fiction novel that features an android as the main character.

Director Michael Bay was blamed for only bringing the robots to life, leaving the actors to stand without animation in the enormous shadows of the metal giants.

Others blame the writing for the one-dimensional human crowd that contrasted wildly with the robots that practically stomped their heavy metal feet right out of the screen.

You still want to be them or maybe just hang out with them, but there's nothing that screams animation or just pretend about them, aside from the fact that they are oversized, human-like robots after all.

It was a throwback to the 1980s cartoon by the same name about automobiles that turned into robots.

Robots can perform many of the same functions that humans can, sometimes more accurately and efficiently.

Transformers as we know them today are intelligent robots that can think, feel and transform.

A couple of new faces appear, as well as some new voices portray the additional robots that weren't in the previous movie.

The message from the writers was clear - robots will never have common sense.

There are already numerous news reports and successes in the lab with pet robots with artificial intelligence.

Personal Robot - Could these robots have a future helping people with disabilities?

When you look into the vast history of robots, sci-fi fans may be surprised to learn that robots aren't limited to the humanoid-looking robots we grew up with in movies, TV and in literature.

While robotics have been around since 270 BC, the term robot wasn't coined until 1921 when the Czech writer Karel Capek wrote a play called Rossum's Universal Robots, also known as R.U.R.

The Sirius Cybernetics' corporation created Marvin in an attempt to create genuine people personality AI for their robots.

R2D2 and C3PO - These two robots from the Star Wars movies showed moviegoers exactly what sort of wonderful characters robots could make.

It was the Japanese who really liked robots; so they would breed the electronic wizards most likely to construct the first genuine androids.