They don't have a second thought about the fact that they're using a robot to perform a task.
The researchers ran an experiment where a principal chooses one of two people to perform a task in exchange for compensation.
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Every now and then, characters have to perform a task that could alter the story's events, such as hunting down a key card to stop a speeding train.
The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.
If a robot is in a remote location they need to be able to use their energy effectively in order to complete their mission or perform a task, so they also need to take energy from their surrounding environment.
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They learn to perform a complex task like swinging, in part, by watching others.
In order to earn the Badge, a Scout has to design, build, and program a robot to perform a certain task.
Kelvin Lui and Alan Wong from The Chinese University of Hong Kong published a study this past spring that showed that those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses when asked to perform a specific task.
Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.
Imagine in the future, your phone not only receiving a firmware update for its software, but also its circuits, because an electrical engineer figured out a more efficient way let a component perform its task!
Set aside about 45 minutes to defrag your hard disk, a task you should perform at least once a month.
You can also set a task manager to automatically perform these tasks for you.
And to represent the United States there is the most thrilling and the most humbling task a lawyer can perform.
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It's hard to believe he can competently perform this task if his only experience in a similar situation ended in failure.
There are the all-purpose chips like Intel's Pentium series, which can perform almost any computing task, from running a videogame to calculating a spreadsheet.
Harvest enough of these, and arrange them in the right order, and it is possible to knock together a piece of software that can perform any task you like.
For example, you might fudge on the amount of time it takes you to complete a task you were asked to perform by your spouse because you want to build in enough time to goof off before you actually do it.
Is it intolerant for a citizen to require its government to perform the fundamental task of enforcing national borders?
Recently, the NLRB sanctioned a policy that threatens to balkanize American businesses with a multiplicity an individual bargaining units, differentiated solely by the specific task they perform or the location within the shop that they perform it.
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Among them: suggesting how many blueprints an engineer should have on his desk, deciding how far to travel to perform an assembly-line task and reducing the time it takes to hire and orient a new employee from 23 to 7 days.
Both Ms Ladele and Mr McFarlane had argued in Strasbourg for "reasonable accommodation" - a compromise in which an employer would find alternative staff without conflicting religious convictions to perform the task.
The company currently produces a wide array of e-readers and tablets, the latter of which can perform virtually every smartphone task except make calls.
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