First, his own style: on television he rarely smiles, and recites his lines like a robot.
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The site has tons of tips, odds tables and hints for not attracting unwanted attention from the pit bosses (order a drink, don't play like a robot, talk to the dealer).
After so many years of performing like a robot, by the age of 25, a lot of kids who grew up like me have no idea how to connect with other people.
In a phrase first coined by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, get too human and they fall into the "Uncanny Valley", that point on a graph that plots acceptance against how human like a robot is where acceptance falls through the floor.
Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human?
Turns out the couple needed all these skills to build their home, a 2, 600-square-foot, three-bedroom ultramodern residence that looks a little like a giant robot.
Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.
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And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.
LS3, a dog-like robot, trots behind a human over rough terrain, carrying up to 180kg of supplies.
He walked through the Zone and marked the points of maximum radiation they exploited him in the fullest sense of the term, like he was a robot.
Taylor, professor of Computer Sciences at Johns Hopkins University have tried another tack by making a tiny snake-like robot go where endoscopes have gone before and focused on making a fully articulated tip.
Engineers in the US say they have invented a hydrogen-powered robot that moves through water like a jellyfish.
At the moment I'm concentrating on using vegetation like a cow, rather than building a meat-eating robot.
Because we have been influenced, going back to the 1950s, by our perception of what a robot looks like and how it behaves.
Rather than offering a readymade robot like Nao that largely makes software the focus of user customization, cSpring is designed to be highly customizable (and open source) on both the hardware and software fronts.
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So it would be nice to have a component that could change shape almost like liquid... but to make a robot have a different texture would obviously be a new dimension of robotics.
Across a cluttered table at Lego's base in Billund an original Mindstorms robot faces the new crew like a last dinosaur eyeing frisky new species.
Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.
The scientists said the device could work like "an artificial nose for a robot dog", sniffing out extremely low concentrations of vapour.
"Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materials he found at hand, " said project leader Prof Mike Stilman.
Before the tech exhibit he was serenaded by Israeli singer Dudu Fisher and he later examined a range of inventions, from a snake robot ("My wife would not like this, " Obama declared) to a motorized exoskeleton for people with paralysis of the legs.
Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
That's why scientists from the University of Virginia are developing the Mantabot, a robot that looks and swims like a ray.
Curiosity may be a robot, but it acts like a scientist: always skeptical, running experimental controls, double and triple checking every result.
NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.
Yeah, this is kind of like that -- except that it's a freaking robot.
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Today, it takes the form of a cartoon-like dog named Rity, developed at the Robot Intelligence Technology (RIT) Laboratory, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
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