He was famous for his fiction from the Foundation series to I Robot, but his science books were his masterpieces of lucidity.
Fans of the emotional Sonny from I-Robot, or the depressed and bored Marvin from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, may be disappointed to hear that they are more likely to find a cockroach composing a symphony or writing a poem than a robot.
I, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.
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"We've demonstrated their versatility, but I want to see a robot that can climb over rubble, up walls and wriggle through gaps, where the environment isn't controlled, " he said.
For many years, I worked in professional kitchens where the Robot-Coupe, a big red and white plastic monster of a food processor, was always ready at hand.
"If had that robot, I could have my cardiologist in Boston or Cleveland guiding that procedure remotely, " Carlin says.
While researching this series on the domestic origins of technology, I discovered the Magimix by Robot-Coupe.
"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.
My roommate at the time called me a resume robot (and yeah, I was pretty focused, and maybe a little crazy).
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.
And I would think, this is a game about a robot and a little girl.
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Which is too bad, because I would have no qualms about letting a robot take over garbage sorting duties.
Yesterday I spoke to Jeff Goodsill, GM of Stomp Games, about Robot Rising, Facebook games and the Free-to-Play movement in general.
I'm also a fan of alien and robot movies, but more often than not, it seems women are more adept at dispatching those.
If I could predict anything, there will not be a huge sudden personal robot breakthrough: instead, there will be decades in front of us of patient basic research in many countries by thousands of researchers, with unexpected, fascinating results.
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"I don't think a robot will ever be better than a person, " Balch said.
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.
And I have to say, it is fascinating stuff, when you watch -- the robot is about this big.
At the moment I'm concentrating on using vegetation like a cow, rather than building a meat-eating robot.
Using a new technology Honda calls "i-Walk, " which includes the ability to predict and react to sudden movements, this robot walks more smoothly and naturally than its predecessors.
The young female cashier was texting on her cell phone when I arrived, pointing to the red phone downstairs one must use to call Moneygram and speak to a robot, selecting English or Spanish, whether sending or receiving money, giving the eight-digit confirmation code and personal ID information to release the funds for receipt.
I.e. the dual-cameras on the HOM-BOT can show you where the robot is, and mapping presents a display of its path through the house.
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