Transformers (2007) and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (2009): the Bumble Bee Chevy Camaro almost makes a better robot than a car.

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Big, sophisticated robot systems used on car-production lines can cost millions of dollars.

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Engineers can calculate the most efficient route for a spray-painting robot to take around a car body, work out how quickly parts must be supplied, look for bottlenecks or even tell if a human worker's task is likely to give him backache.

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Robots are getting better at co-operating with each other: in some car plants a big robot now lifts a small one inside the vehicle to assemble components.

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The robot grabs a red cartridge for a red car.

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Neither did the robot maid, the home video phone, or the car that was also a boat.

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The robot can also fold up for easy storage in your car, and later models are being geared towards being able to fold up small enough to use as carry-on luggage.

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He said that the PSNI inspected the vehicle using a remote controlled "wheelbarrow" robot and found two gas cylinders, a length of wiring and a car battery.

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The small robot inside the cabin makes for a "very intimate relationship between driver and car, " he says.

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But even more fans swarm an eight-foot-tall robot, who looks every bit the part of a transformed version of the car.

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