Word: robotization
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...Baltimore Sun found the newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary to official flights soon to be made for inspectors of the Department of Commerce...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called "Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf," better than a lot of other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...
...eliminate guesswork and tradition from golf instruction," the Professional Golfers' Association hired a movie camera geared to take 3,200 pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...
Blinking glowing eyes, one red, one green, Mr. Televox who was, of course, a robot replied: "Is Sex Necessary...