Every night, when the humans are tucked up in bed, the robots are collected by truck to be cleaned and repaired in huge labs populated by giant computers and white coated and masked technicians.
Many featured close-ups of cuddly, white-coated pups, although their killing has been banned since 1987.
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Rather than being seen as white-coated technocrats, carrying out vital research, the survey found that scientists were stereotyped as "dangerous cranks" who spent too long in the laboratory.
Biscotti and tarts are frequently on offer as well, but it would seem more fitting if a white-coated technician wearing futuristic glasses came in to take your temperature.
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Once the makers had an image, they found a white-coated scientist to devise a recipe, which was described on the bottle as being more than 400 years old.
Its a far cry from the way the medicine game was played just a few years back, when white-coated researchers, furrowed of brow and stooped of shoulder, mixed and matched chemicals in a flask.
Inside the North American Fur Auction, a reeking 15, 000-square-foot mausoleum, white-coated dealers from around the world pick among the 5.5 million stiff pelts--lynx, bobcat, mink, muskrat, fox, beaver and timber wolf among them.
Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.
You take the point: the beauty category is, for all its beauty, somewhat dull, presenting the same sorts of images with the current face plugged in, once in a while throwing in a white-coated lab tech to convince us this is all high science.
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New Maple Brown Sugar Frosted Mini Wheats cereal, which Kellogg rolled out this year, seems less sinful than the classic Frosted Flakes coated in white sugar.
His 40 products--snack foods aimed at health-conscious consumers--include Veggie Booty (puffed rice and corn seasoned with dried kale, spinach, broccoli and carrot), Pirate's Booty (the same stuff coated in white cheddar) and Fruity Booty with peach and mango powder.
In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.
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More than 229 million portions of white fish fillets are sold each year in England, each one coated in a light batter and deep-fried, and served alongside fat fried slices of potatoes.
The world of the Lincoln-era Washington he created was incredibly accurate and realistic, from the White House with its dim lighting, to the Senate with its waist-coated and bearded men, from the wallpaper to the rugs, and everything in between, no detail was spared in the cause of authenticity.
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