Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another function which enhances the robot's utility, according to its creators, is its ability to perform a series of movements on its own through the use of its ultrasonic sensors. These sensors are in the form of strips on the side panels that send signals back to the computer's Central Processing Unit of the main computer in case the robot--or in this case the vacuum cleaner--bumps into an object on the floor that it must evade...
...frankly, I'm embarrassed. How can we expect an eager science student to head out for his day at the labs with the requisite vim and vigor when he leaves his breakfast in the dining hall in the morning feeling unsatisfied, incompetent, unsure of his ability to function meaningfully in his society...
...ever hope to impress upon the contemplative VES student the beauty of a proper marriage of form and function when her dining hall toaster, with the facade of an oxyactylene welder, can not even thaw her single Eggo waffle...
...They do nothing constructive; their main function is to try to split meetings," Kelly said afterwards...
...done some career advising and I will function in that particular vein," says another advisor, Salvatore J. Iannucci, the Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Spelling Productions...