Word: robotically
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...anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...
...cart with 20 mail compartments. It runs on four rubber wheels and is driven by a battery-powered electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
Wherever a stop is out of a secretary's line of sight, the robot sounds a chime or blinks a light to attract her attention...
There was also triumph for the space agency's latest unmanned spacecraft. Barely two years after a similar robot began the first detailed mapping of Mars, and only weeks after another peeked at giant Jupiter, a 1,108-lb. ship named Mariner 10 last week cruised by the earth's nearest neighbor, Venus. In the first clear pictures of the planet, Mariner's cameras showed great circular cloud formations, raising the possibility that Venus may have an atmospheric circulation something like the earth...
...camp, known locally as Muhammad's Mountain, the words, as always, fly as fast as the punches. "Frazier's a robot," says Ah'. "He's a human punching bag." Ali promises that he will be better prepared for Frazier's methodical style this time. "I fought his fight last time. This time I'm gonna move. I'm gonna dance...