Using a laser, the robot can make highly accurate welds and position itself for each one a lot faster than it could if it were spot-welding in the normal way.

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It is only when words on the walls start appearing, admonishing the player or offering backhanded encouragement after yet another violent explosion into giblets at the hands of a laser-equipped turret or murderous robot, that you realise the bastard is the game.

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Behind a tinted glass panel 18-carat gold powder, laid down by a robot arm, sparkles as a laser fuses the metal into complex three-dimensional shapes, layer by layer.

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Bristling with sensors, antennas, a laser and a robotic arm, the Curiosity robot, about the size of a small SUV, is twice the length and four times the weight of any of the three prior rovers that explored Mars.

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