Word: robotized
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...create the feeling of outer outer space, there are stereophonic sound effects to echo the dialogue. It usually sounds as though the man behind you is whistling in your ear. By far the most believable of unbelievable settings treats any physics major's imagination, and Robbie the Robot, who can produce 60 gallons of Kansas City Bourbon in one sitting, amuses everyone with his radio announcer's accent...
...approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors coldly beside a lavender tree...
...success in his mission. And, more important, he had the chance to talk with Russian students and teachers in their own language over an extended period of time without the "cooperation" of Intourist. His findings are significant largely because they illustrate that the intelligent Russian student is not a robot who accepts the party line on every subject...
...hand is often incapable of milling and finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with a possibility of error. North American's new skin mill has worked out so well that the Air Force has ordered 48 more for U.S. aircraft plants, will install...
Though automation has made a striking impact on U.S. industry, the great brain and the robot machine will never make the human mind and hand obsolete. In some companies automation is not practical. One manufacturer decided to convert all the clerical work to automatic processing by means of punch card order blanks that could be fed into machines...