Word: robots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father becomes his son, then takes the youngster's place in his playground-a lower circle in Dante's hell. A fully automated house continues to function with mechanical mindlessness long after its inhabitants have been incinerated in a nuclear holocaust. An electrical robot grandmother does more than bake her grandchildren's favorite pies; she is a model of uncritical love. When the children grow old, she is on standby, ready for their second childhoods. An uninhabited planet resists earthlings who have come to settle...
Usually a paragon of sound investment practices and prudent money management, Harvard recently followed the Star Wars fad and put $200,000 into one of the country's first robot corporations...
Citing high productivity figures from Japan and West Germany, where robot use is more widespread, Villers said only 3000 robots are in use in the U.S. today--mostly in manufacturing--but he added that the number would double in the next two years...
...added that the University chose to be an original investor in Automatix, the only robot systems company in the United States, because "the robotics industry is just in its infancy and we think it has a very major application in increasing productivity...
Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...