Or at least a little pin that extends so I can pop the balloon of other heads that get too close and crowd me (because my robot head needs his space, too).
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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.
The pharmacy manager explained to me that neither gemfibrozil nor Vicodin was actually dispensed by human pharmacists but by a robot, and she speculated that the robot must have filled my prescription (with gemfibrozil) and then gone on to the next prescription (Vicodin), somehow putting both kinds of pills into the same vial.
"If had that robot, I could have my cardiologist in Boston or Cleveland guiding that procedure remotely, " Carlin says.
Wherever I went, I needed a constant handler and guide, and the spotty wireless signal often left me stranded the video window on my laptop in Texas frozen as the Robot Rachel in New York went dead.
My roommate at the time called me a resume robot (and yeah, I was pretty focused, and maybe a little crazy).
My company, Romotive, builds a small, affordable robot that uses an iPhone as his brain.
Robot Rising is no ordinary Facebook game, and my hours of playtime will emphatically back that up.
And here I was thinking the robot was simply having trouble figuring out how to draw my eyebrows.
Then the robot proceeded to spend the next 10-15 minutes drawing my portrait on a whiteboard.
Still, when my editors and I discussed whether we'd rather invest in a robot or several plane tickets to New York, we'd choose the latter.
But successive projects show you how to make my Rover by adding touch, light and ultrasound sensors that let the robot respond to its environment--plus a grabber that can pick things up.
"I see today's robot toys as predecessors to the future of the robotics industry just as my Apple II and Atari now seem like toys compared to computers today, " Trower says.
"I can call this kind of robot over and tell it I want to talk with someone, just as I use my PC to connect with people today, " Trower says.
To my eye, Zoe was stuck somewhere in the "uncanny valley", that no man's land between robot and realistic human replica that makes us feel uncomfortable.
Video has emerged of the academic wearing a studded white leather jacket and "robot" visor glasses, while rapping to the song (I've Had) The Time of My Life from the film Dirty Dancing.
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