Word: robot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spectators and delegates in the Paris arena last week watched him at work and saw a trained soldier-not a robot, but a quick-witted, iron-nerved fighter, attentive to the word from his superior, who reacts in disciplined grooves of mental habit...
...telephone slaves a Swiss robot now promises freedom. Its name: Ipsophone. This amazing, almost human instrument automatically answers phone calls, gives and takes messages, rebuffs unwanted callers with a busy signal, records long conversations, and faithfully plays back everything it has heard whenever its master chooses to listen...
Numbers Game. Anytime he feels curious, the robot's master can get a complete report by dropping into a phone booth and calling up his Ipsophone...
...less than 30 seconds. A German invention, it was developed during the war by Ernst Keller, a young ballistics expert for the Swiss company which made the famed Oerlikon antiaircraft gun. He worked out an elaborate system of acoustic relays for translating the instructions given the machine into its robot responses...
Perfumes of all kinds sold heavily everywhere. Parfums Weil Paris Co. neatly fell into the effervescent mood of shoppers by introducing a new scent called "GriGri." It was designed to "replace . . . the blockbuster and the robot bomb" with "a dash of the inconsequential...