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Most Promising New Actor: Artoo Detoo, the heroic little robot of Star Wars...
...Belvidere plant, Chrysler has installed 20 electronic robot welding machines that do 92% of the welding formerly performed by hand. Production will be increased by one-third, to 60 Horizons and Omnis an hour, v. the 45 larger cars per hour that had been built there. That should increase profits, but it alarms a lot of union members because some 200 workers were laid off when the new equipment...
...generous). It has occurred to the father that it could be a great improvement, in the interest of strict fairness, if the computer had an aperture down which martinis could be poured. The valiant human attacker has such an aperture. Nevertheless he has forced a crack in the dreaded robot's pawn fortress, and he sends his queen slashing in, punching "H3 to H6" and the encode button on the keyboard. The red light-emitting diodes of the machine's digital display flicker for about 30 seconds...
...Robot Coupe R2 ($439). French prototype of the smaller Cuisinart, this is the household version of a restaurant model. Worth every cent for the home cook who entertains on a large scale and demands professional results...
...robot blood-pressure machine -or sphygmomanometer-that has sharply reduced Mrs. Williams' dependence on her physician is one of the latest marvels of medical technology. Introduced in 1976 by Vita-Stat Inc. of Tierra Verde, Fla., and now produced by other firms as well, the coin-operated gadgets have appeared in some 1,300 shopping malls, drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director...