Word: robotics
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Authors of "Adam the Creator" as well as the famous play of the twenties "R.U.R." in which the word "robot" was originated, the Capeks are among the outstanding Continental dramatists and are noted for their ingenious stage sets and novel plays...
Even in extra-curricular activities she feels like a robot. She begins to brood over remarks such as this one overheard in St. Clair's and made by a Harvard man to a Radcliffe girl: "You be quiet; you're just here to look pretty." This, of course, was followed by a declaration of the ugliness of Radcliffe women...
Human beings are not the only victims of G-trouble. As aircraft speeds increase, instruments and radio equipment too will be threatened by mounting Gs. In preparation for military invasion of the ionosphere, the Navy's new centrifuge will torture the robot crews of unmanned, guided missiles to see if their bloodless bodies can stand the punishment...
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...
...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...