In one activity, children try to get a robot arm to pick up a block and place it in a cup.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

She threw it on the floor. I forced her to get out of her chair to pick the spoon up.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

So,just being able to pick one of those up will help our visitors understand how difficult portability was about thirty years ago."

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Some of the soldiers left the road to pick fruits and berries from bushes along the way.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He bent to pick it up. Just as he was about to throw it into the wastepaper basket, he noticed that the letter was signed by his business partner, Thomas Antrim.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

He tried to pick one up,but failed.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The challenge is to pick out oil from other dark spots, such as shadows made by clouds or patches of seaweed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Rains have started to fall and are expected to pick up fully in the next two or three weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Some choices are made for you,". "I didn't want to be a soldier but I didn't want to pick cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"I am hoping he will pick someone with great dimension," "We all know he is going to pick a more liberal justice."

VOA: standard.2009.05.03