Word: robots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robot in Space. In Bradley's system, a ground-based astronaut would strap himself into a control harness or frame that would be a virtual duplicate of a telefactor aboard an orbiting spacecraft (see diagram). Should the astronaut want to adjust a cabin control, for example, he would reach his arm toward a knob on a duplicate of the spacecraft's instrument panel. His every motion would be translated into electronic signals and transmitted to the telefactor in orbit. Servomechanisms on the telefactor would move its arm toward the actual spacecraft control panel. Feedback devices on the telefactor...
...with a crew cut and mournful mien, and said: "I don't know anything. But this man-he is the whole plan." When Aleksei Kosygin became Premier of the U.S.S.R. 20 years later, his rise was seen as the coming to power of a new breed of managerial robot. Last week Stalin's glum young associate turned out to be a lively, even likable robot. In the second week of his official visit to France, Kosygin quipped and capered, and proved an engaging salesman...
...Inside the Lie Box" [Nov. 4], because it cautions against the truth or guilt robot, must be welcomed by those familiar not only with the machine but also with the feelings of human beings exposed...
...certified top 35," 12 "extras," the ads and promotion pieces are all on separate tape cartridges in the robot, a 12-foot long product of Automatic Tape Control, Bloomington, Illinois. The five-second identification spots are on the ends of those cartridges. There are three hour-long reels, two of flashbacks, one of instrumental fillers, that proceed from number to number when called...
...only the robot could overcome his commercial instincts and use his numerical advantage as WOR (New York's new FM rocker) does, by playing more new songs and hits in other areas...